what bodies of water wear
why i wrote my dissertation in my bath.
november 2025
for my last year of fashion school i became
really obsessed with the possibility of
wearing the sea.
i went home that summer, was a bit bored.
it marked a year of really long and pointless
trips to the nhs without really
understanding what was wrong,
if it was all in my head.
i had these shared feelings with mini,
the same pain.
i was only okay if i woke up and felt liquid.
i also understood i had curly hair
after observing water on my hair.
i went to paris where i wasn’t very liquid
but got to think about why i studied fashion
if i really didn’t love clothes.
i love fashion but i am not big on clothes.
but i love fashion, i love to dress up,
to have fun with it, as a medium,
as something that combines different things
sound, image, touch, text, etc.
when i was bored thinking of this that summer
i went home and looked at the water
on my skin after leaving the sea.
if my skin is wet, if i see the water on my skin, could it mean i am wearing the sea?
can our bodily interactions with nature be a fashion experience?
this started my dissertation.
i found out about hydrofeminism
but it was very hard to explain it with
academic language.
i took a lot of baths
to think and translate a liquid concept
into a written one. i printed lots of things
(my research)
and put it on the bath walls.
i invited jonathan anderson
to come look at it but he never made it.
i love my bath.
i have never had one before so i really cherish it.
i light candles, watch something, wash my hair
with a new garnier papaya serum and davines products.
and, as of recently, i started using soap
with an african sponge net
and that’s my new reason to be happy.
i might go into masters to write another
dissertation and spend more time with this net.
november 2025
for my last year of fashion school i became
really obsessed with the possibility of
wearing the sea.
i went home that summer, was a bit bored.
it marked a year of really long and pointless
trips to the nhs without really
understanding what was wrong,
if it was all in my head.
i had these shared feelings with mini,
the same pain.
i was only okay if i woke up and felt liquid.
i also understood i had curly hair
after observing water on my hair.
i went to paris where i wasn’t very liquid
but got to think about why i studied fashion
if i really didn’t love clothes.
i love fashion but i am not big on clothes.
but i love fashion, i love to dress up,
to have fun with it, as a medium,
as something that combines different things
sound, image, touch, text, etc.
when i was bored thinking of this that summer
i went home and looked at the water
on my skin after leaving the sea.
if my skin is wet, if i see the water on my skin, could it mean i am wearing the sea?
can our bodily interactions with nature be a fashion experience?
this started my dissertation.
i found out about hydrofeminism
but it was very hard to explain it with
academic language.
i took a lot of baths
to think and translate a liquid concept
into a written one. i printed lots of things
(my research)
and put it on the bath walls.
i invited jonathan anderson
to come look at it but he never made it.
i love my bath.
i have never had one before so i really cherish it.
i light candles, watch something, wash my hair
with a new garnier papaya serum and davines products.
and, as of recently, i started using soap
with an african sponge net
and that’s my new reason to be happy.
i might go into masters to write another
dissertation and spend more time with this net.