Emily Misaki Hon　Relics

FFP2025

Relics

The fashion industry operates within a cycle of disposability, fast consumption, and emotional detachment. Garments are worn briefly and discarded thoughtlessly, degrading the environment while erasing craft, identity, and cultural narratives. I believe fashion holds the potential to be both an emotional vessel and cultural artifact. Relics encourage slowing down, reimagining how we relate to clothing as carriers of memory, identity, and emotional connection. Here, garments become living dialogues.

Relics began during a time of personal grief, as I sorted through my grandfather’s belongings and found worn garments marked by repair and repetition, evidence of a life shaped by limitation, not abundance. This reshaped my understanding of beauty as something revealed through age and imperfection.

I carried this ethos forward by reweaving dismantled remnants of his clothing and eco-dyeing the fabric with fallen eucalyptus leaves collected locally, embedding the landscape I shared with him. This act became more than recycling; it was a way to unravel loss and memory. Relics inhabit the delicate space between preservation and disposal, challenging the impulse to discard what once held significance and inviting us to reconsider how clothing can be transformed and carried forward rather than forgotten.

The piece evokes longing and constriction. The bound silhouette suggests a figure tied up or prepared for disposal. Strings laced through the piece allows adjustment and wrapping, embodying the tension between preservation and erasure. The piece appears to disintegrate softly, capturing impermanence at its core.

　　Material: Cotton/Silk Voile, Mycelium leather, Grandfathers Clothing, Bark cloth

　　Supported by: Sonnie

Emily Misaki Hon

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