Fionna's Wardrobe Theory 2022

Fionna's experience working on machines at this point had taught her the importance of tools and organization. Pictured below is what i considered my fundamental tools for sewing. This page still brings me great peace to look at. It was this type of work that made me feel better while i was suffering the most, it brought about a sense of deep meaning and tangible order.

The first task Fionna took on was defining wardrobe as a collection of clothes and what role needed to be satisfied by each piece. Fionna wanted to be able to see her wardrobe in her mind as an emergent image and spent time making drawings of her favorite clothes. Doing this helped her understand the style Arabella (and the girls before) has created up until this point. It was a starting point for the impression and function she wanted to curate as her wardrobe endeavors unfolded.

While this was a productive exercise, i think it was a distraction from the obvious disfunction of her life. I remember sitting in the library I used to go to as a teenager when i was getting out of my deep isolation. This place that used to be the light at the end of my tunnel was now signaling some kind of failure. There was a hoard that couldn’t be seen in totality, she made images of what she would keep in the end. Of course, wardrobe is just a symptom of a much more fundamental problem that I have always been avoiding and still cannot quite identify to this day.