Thesis Collection
Rachel Sopher-Harelick
Fashion Design (School of Art and Design)
About this Item
- Title
- Thesis Collection
- Date
- 2021
- Summary/Artist Statement
- Growing up in a home where the arts were valued (my father was a graphic designer who later opened a pottery studio) drawing, painting and sculpting were always in the foreground. Trips to visit grandma were where I was first taught to sew, making handbags out of my old school uniform. From that point, I took a deeper interest in sewing and ultimately fashion. The morning ritual of coordinating my school outfit became an hour-long process, which often triggered emails to my parents from school scolding my lateness. While I was constantly told that "school was not a fashion show," it was to me. Freshman year of high school I decided to take Sunday morning pre-college classes at FIT. I continued to do that every semester of every year until I applied to enroll. My background in fine art inspires me to give everyday clothing a funky and playful twist.
- Image 1: This thesis explores discomfort and anxiety that accompanies obsessive-compulsive disorder, (OCD). Through asymmetry and pattern distortions, garments aim to instill an uneasiness in both the wearer and viewer. This image exposes a patch rotated to disrupt the plaid pattern of the skirt.
- Image 2: Model wears a cold shoulder button down exposing her shoulder where her head would usually be. Of all the buttons on the shirt, only one is yellow.
- Image 3: The longer side of the asymmetrical skirt is shown while model holds a pill bottle purse with one cap unturned.
- Image 4: Back view of outfit shown with model tilting her body to favor the garment's irrational construction.
- Image 5: Model's stance is controlled by her outfit and how it would normally lay on the body.
- Image 6: Model stands uncomfortably in a broken elevator, appearing stuck and distorted. Her head seems to be poking out of the armhole, while her shoulder peaks out of the shirt's collar.
- Course/Degree Information
- Program/Degree: Fashion Design BFA
- Specialization: Sportswear
- Professor: Patrick Boylan
- Academic semester: Spring 2021
- Rights
- In Copyright
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- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: fof_2021_0153
Citation
Sopher-Harelick, R. (2021). Thesis Collection. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28371
Sopher-Harelick, Rachel. Thesis Collection. 2021. FIT Institutional Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28371
Sopher-Harelick, Rachel. "Thesis Collection." FIT Institutional Repository, 2021. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28371