Miss Laurel Green-Fairfashion speaks on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery about her support for women’s emancipation and her fight for reforms in the garment industry of her day.
Miss Laurel Green-Fairfashion speaks on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery about her support for women’s emancipation and her fight for reforms in the garment industry of her day.
Laurel asks the clerk about the jean factory’s conditions and is quickly ushered out by the store manager.
Laurel asks the clerk about the jean factory’s conditions and is quickly ushered out by the store manager.
Laurel engages shoppers by asking them about the fabric content and the country of manufacture of the clothes they are wearing.
Laurel engages shoppers by asking them about the fabric content and the country of manufacture of the clothes they are wearing.
This couple was adamant that they would always choose the cheapest t-shirt no matter what the consequences to workers.
This couple was adamant that they would always choose the cheapest t-shirt no matter what the consequences to workers.
The design is based on the Keystone Jacket, an early pattern that enabled women to make their own practical clothing. The mutton sleeves are covered with Hydrangea flowers.
The design is based on the Keystone Jacket, an early pattern that enabled women to make their own practical clothing. The mutton sleeves are covered with Hydrangea flowers.
The garment was installed in my garden and it began to change colours
The garment was installed in my garden and it began to change colours
Detail of green Cherry Tomato button
Detail of green Cherry Tomato button
The green tomato eventually turned red
The green tomato eventually turned red
Sleeve takes on an even more Victorian lace look as it ages
Sleeve takes on an even more Victorian lace look as it ages

Laurel Suffragette

In 2011, Laurel Suffragette was conceived as a character that had witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster, which caused the deaths of garment workers in N.Y.C. in 1911. She appears in Vancouver’s fashion district to gage the pulse of today’s fashion industry. This intervention was ironically staged before the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, where workers also died because they were locked in the building during a fire. View Weedrobes Video.

 

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