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Prospect Exhibition
Year:
2025
The Prospect Exhibition presented The Soft Edge within a broader conversation about contemporary design in Aotearoa, offering a still, concentrated environment for the collection to be experienced as sculptural form rather than worn movement.
Seen up close, each garment became a study in controlled softness — exposing the internal negotiations between structure, tension, and restraint that define the collection.
Freed from the context of the body, the subtle collapses, suspended seams, and softened lines revealed themselves with clarity. Viewers could read the garments not as fashion objects but as material inquiries: questions about how construction can yield without losing intention, how edges can blur without dissolving, and how vulnerability can be embedded into the architecture of a garment.
This static presentation emphasised the emotional undercurrents of The Soft Edge — the way fragility is engineered rather than accidental, the way softness can operate as structure, and how small shifts in balance can transform the tone of a piece. Within the exhibition setting, these details carried new resonance, highlighting the quiet depth of the work’s methodology.
Exhibited alongside other emerging designers, the collection contributed to Ōtautahi’s ongoing culture of experimental, process-led practice. Prospect became a moment of pause — a space to observe the sensitivity, labour, and intention held within each garment, and to recognise The Soft Edge as a continuation of your exploration into gentled structure, material intimacy, and the disciplined language of softness.
