…in the form of a face melting sunblaze.

I’ve had a little subconscious thing for patchwork for a moment, probably because I grew up with a Mum who was always making things like that. A few years ago I inherited her sewing box alongside her full set of 70′s Cordon Bleu recipe books as a ‘rights-of-passage’ type of thing. To be honest I thought sewing and stuff was as boring as hell when I was younger, it’s only recently that I’ve become interested in the idea that patchwork holds hidden stories; in part through design and in part by the origin of it’s bits.

Amongst my Mum’s sewing things, I found a diamond-shaped metal template. She’d used it to cut out pieces of our old clothes to make a traditional sunburst piece that hung in the kitchen like for ever. It started me thinking about making my own sun’blaze’ and how doing that would make a mini-label biography. And I liked that. Thus ‘The Re-Edit’ was born – a piece greater than the sum of it’s parts. Here’s some of the origins of a few of those bits…

Take the original Signature script tee:

Plus one product shoot:

Then some colabs, first the Strawberry 59Fifty made for New Era Sessions:

Then the girls Methodzip female artist piece for Addict – photo by Ethel:

Add a favourite typographic tee:

And finish with a new feature, the roll sleeve print:

Cut it all up, rearrange et voila! One Re-Edit design: