Many of the clothes seen on catwalks and in fashion magazines recently have been vibrantly coloured... Is this not disrespectful at a time when we are mourning the loss of so many lives to COVID-19?
Everything we wear has a story of manufacture, provenance, or personal signification. It also conveys a message to others. But Mulford went so far as to attribute our very state of being to our clothes.
Clayden’s unique garment designs used folding, dipping, clamping, and discharging, as well as new, less orthodox, ways of decorating cloth, like the print motif she created by burning fabric in a sandwich toaster.