Pur Suit Curve

Fashion zine for Jesse Thomas' experimental clothing. @jessethomas is a skateboarder who, alongside being on @skateboardgb, decided to make slashed sweat pants and jackets inspired by his Origami (more details about that below). We arranged to photograph the clothes in Bristol and, whilst out on the street, bumped into @anettanvv who also then got involved. The narrative of the project began at that moment and was completed in the studio later once all the photographs had been processed and I was able to see what we had all been doing.

"Origami was something that was close to me as a teenager. As I advanced in the practice and observed more interesting techniques from the likes of Akira Yoshizawa and Éric Joisel, my understanding of how folds within a two-dimensional plane can behave changed drastically. It opened my eyes to the notion that if rigid geometry can mimic life, it can move with life and complement it as well.

I began incorporating folds into clothing patterns.

One of the first completed sets, captured here by James Hudson in his 'Pur Suit Curve' zine, features a tracksuit combo that accentuates the folds and the movement they take on, with iridescent piping layered on the pleating. Along with a more rigid, tailored suit that uses pleating to suggest movement and excitement where there was none before."

Jesse Thomas, Nov 2024

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