Ingrid Pettersson

I like to think of clothes as something active together with us; clothes that respond to our movements and can remind us of what we are doing via its rhythm, weight, and bounce. My garments work against efficiency by appreciating the impractical. This is fashion playing sports-wear, but it works against the logic of distraction-free clothes and the idea of overcoming new goals.
With my clothes I want to encourage movement that frees itself from the goals of the training, to concentrate on the meeting between the body, the bouncy garment and the surroundings. I knit rectangles in rib on Dubied hand knitting machines. Each knitted rectangle is carefully put together to find the right pull, weight, bounce, and direction in the garment.