My home isn’t just where I live, it’s where growth happened slowly. Within this project I explored my childhood home as a place of development, memory and ongoing change. I have lived there my whole life and over time, as I have learnt and progressed, so has the house around me. Not in a glossy, finished house way, but in a worked on at 9pm, one room at a time, life keeps interrupting way. Our home grew at the same pace as the people inside it. It was a slow transformation, and the house has never been ‘finished’ but constantly worked on. Through this collection, I examined domestic labour, time, memories, emotional attachment, and the quiet resilience of a family who built a life inside something imperfect. I focused on the development of my house from where it started to where it is today to help initiate my design ideas. I initially experimented with this silhouette within a formal suit jacket, trying to understand how I could create the dramatic proportions that I wanted without taking away from the traditional tailoring features. I began by thinking about having lots of openings throughout the jacket so it could peel open, and it would reveal what was underneath and the lining pattern. The openings quickly became repetitions of vents being featured on the back, side seam and sleeves. I began experimenting with boning and wire to get the structure and stability to hold the fabric in that way. I have created a modern twist on a concept that is mainly focused on the past by looking into the contrast between how my father would go to his office job in his suits and then would come home and start decorating the house in his casual clothes. I wanted to look at the fusion of tailoring and streetwear in an innovative way, bringing the traditional tailoring features such as tailoring interfacing, canvassing, shoulder pads, horsehair and hemming tape to create a crisp fit and construction. I pulled on classic tailored garments but tried to look at them in a new way and experiment with their silhouettes.