Hollis x Fernandez Collaboration
SCAD fashion design student Lizette Fernandez’s senior collection* was based on the idea of home for a nomad. Having grown up in Monterrey, Mexico, studied in Savannah, GA, and worked in New York City, NY, Fernandez is familiar with a nomadic lifestyle. Together, we set out to create a capsule collection that would serve as a sort of home wherever it may go. Taking inspiration from early nomadic cultures’ use and reuse of fibers as functional cloth and tools of communication, I developed woven structures and prints rich with memories. The cropped scarf (first image) is made of wool yarn sourced from a family mill. It is a double cloth woven structure woven on a floor loom and stuffed with scraps from the development of Fernandez’s own collection. Both woven samples were woven on a frame loom-back strap hybrid and made of yarn unwound from sweaters thrifted in Savannah, GA and New York City. Print collection is based on plastic woven bags used often in Latin America and scenes from travel spaces.
*This collection remains incomplete due to interruption by the COVID-19 pandemic.