About Me
I'm Pauline, a Fashion Communication Graduate of Heriot-Watt
My magazine, Thousand Lives, takes the audience on a time-travel through my childhood and the bygone days of fashion. I want to revisit the stories of vintage garments, some of them contained, frozen, in old photo albums. Like back then, I will breathe new life into every piece of clothing.
As an image-maker, I aim to attract the audience to unconventional but innovative combinations of used garments by applying acquired styling and photography skills. It detaches colours, patterns, and shapes from mass-market fashion trends, standards, and norms. This broadens the options for reuse and creates a value of eternal Âbeauty for the consumer. Ultimately, this will lead to a new holistic perspective and environmental awareness of used clothes, demonstrating my influential power as an image-maker on the fashion industry and society.
INSPIRATION
Circular Fashion
The magazine focuses on circular fashion featuring used clothing. Undertaking intensive research revealed that consumer thinking and behaviour concerning the current over-consumption will have to shift to reduce the impact of the fashion ecosystem on the environment.
Using a garment for as long as possible, through good care, repair, refurbishment, and sharing among multiple users over time through rent or lease, second-hand, and swap extends the lifecycle of textiles.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Front and back cover, double-spread
Editor's letter, double-spread
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Issue seven, double-spread
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Disclaimer, double-spread
DETAIL
Narrative- A Thousand Lives
When I was growing up, we had what we called the ​Âmemories box. A tremendous wooden chest packed full of childhood paraphernalia and family mementoes dating back to long before I was born. I used to love spending hours rummaging in its depths as a child, inexorably drawn toward the strange items of clothing, each one telling its own story: black knee-high boots with a huge platform heel from my aunt, hats in all sorts of shapes and colours, my grandma's lace-trimmed wedding dress. These keepsakes allowed me to create versions of myself from another reality. While dressing up, I lived a thousand lives in these clothes and these clothes lived a thousand lives through me. I loved them as much, if not even more, as their previous owner, and in return, they gave me back so much joy.
"It's a radical thought, but change can start with just a needle and thread. "- Ivon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing, 2005
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