Photography / May Lin le Goff
Fashion Direction / Ashburn Eng
Model / Budavári Liza (Ave Management)
Make-up / Dennis Ee
Hair / Chris Ruth
Fashion Co-ordinator / Shanna Matthew

The Dr. Martens shoes in the shoot are customised by newly graduated fashion designers.
Each pair is fashioned by each individual designer to compliment their own garment.
All garments are created from used clothings as the TheatreWorks’s creative-in-residence, Jonathan Seow, wants to link the past, present and future of fashion.
The garments were specially designed for the RESUSCITATION Exhibition at 72-13 that happen on July 9 2009 in Singapore.

RESUSCITATION designers
Lee Yun Ting | Sunny Lim | | Mae Pang | Lisa Teng | Shanna Matthew

The Team

Photography / Soon Tong
Fashion & Creative Direction / Ashburn Eng
Model / Weronika H (Ave. Management)
Hair, Bodypaint & Make-up / Chris Ruth
Text / Joyceline Tully
Assistant Designer / Shanna Matthew

From brown paper, toilet paper and tracing paper to old magazines and newspaper, this series is a nod to the sheer ubiquity of paper in urban life, and an indictment of its wanton waste.

But a little imagination and some assistance — in the form of gum tapes, raffia string, aluminum foil, cling wrap, egg trays, bubble wrap and last but not least, trash bags — go a long way in transforming rubbish into wearable art, a truly modern artefact, or what we like to call, paper couture.

With paper, you can scrunch it up to create crinkle effects, as well as twist, braid, weave, pleat and fold to achieve astonishing and remarkable shapes, details and texture.

In everyday life, many people treat paper thoughtlessly, mindlessly. There is some poetic justice then that recycling and rescuing used paper demand hard work and incredible thought. Ashburn Eng and his design assistant spent 2 weeks conceptualizing and experimenting with the designs and materials, and another 364 hours to complete the outfits. Each of the outfits were painstakingly put together through multiple fittings, piece by piece of recycled paper, commanding the attention to detail worthy of fashion’s best.

Photography / May Lin Le Goff
Beauty Direction / Ashburn Eng
Model / Sabrina Ruiz (Upfront Models)
Make-up / Larry Yeo using M.A.C cosmetics
Hair / Chris Ruth
Fashion and Styling Assistance / Shanna Matthew

Photography / Soon Tong
Fashion Direction / Ashburn Eng
Model / Autumn Kendrick (Ave Management)
Make-up and Hair / Chris Ruth
Words / JT
Fashion / Rachel Santhia Edward Perera, Nurhidayah Bte Md ((Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts)
Styling Assistance / Shanna Matthew

A stylistic study of the deviant youth cultures of the 1980s and 1990s. Counter cultures that run against the grain of conventional society, they confront the darker side of desire with their illicit use of drugs and alcohol, promiscuity and occasional violence. Balking at contemporary stereotypes of beauty then embodied in super models like Cindy Crawford and Claudier Schiffer, they worship androgyny, dark eye makeup, pale skin and equally unorthodox fashion.

Photography / May Lin Le Goff
Fashion Direction / Ashburn Eng
Model /Inna D (Upfront) and Bruna B (Ave Management)
Make-up and Hair / Chris Ruth
Fashion / Hana, Marsita Md. Sesth, and Pauline Ning (Lasalle College of the Arts)
Special Thanks to May Yip at STYLE: who drop us and email with this awesome article