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Breasts: Rian Phin

by Rian Phin on 22 July 2022

Fashion designer and writer Rian Phin created a two-piece corseted garment based on maternity and cradle-boarding to explore the breast in a short film.

Fashion designer and writer Rian Phin created a two-piece corseted garment based on maternity and cradle-boarding to explore the breast in a short film.

  • How would you describe what you do?

Rian Phin: I design clothes and talk about Black American pasts and futures.

  • What's your background?

RP: BA in communication, writing and talking about fashion, race and gender for eight years.

  • What inspires you?

RP: Fear and connectivity.

  • What is the ambition behind your practice?

RP: Connecting to the past and the future at once.

  • What did you hope to convey with your Bodies Of Knowledge film?

RP: For the idea of the 'breast, I’ve designed a two-piece corseted garment based on maternity and cradle-boarding, Florida sugarcane harvesting, stillness in life, and being bound and anchored to earth as a nurturer. We exist trapped between moving forward from the past, and time moving backward toward us, weighed down by our ability to lay claim to the victory of harvest.

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