Personal Uniform
The work of finalist Ines Kalliala, a graduate of Aalto University, bears the touch of the hand. With fabric manipulation, hand-stitched details and handmade tailoring, Kalliala’s menswear collection incorporates personal memories and imagined histories engrained in found materials into suiting. Kalliala explores how ”the handwriting” of the maker is embedded in garments. Personal Uniform is made of deadstock wool and tea and rust dyes (the knitted tops were left to rust under a steel plate for two weeks). Also salvaged materials, such as a Soviet tent turned into a Mackintosh coat, a fishing net from the 50s used as veiling, and seashell adornments convey a “material memory” of a past life.
Ines Kalliala is one of the recipients of the joint Exhibition Prize 2021. Her collection will be featured as part of the exhibition Future Nordic Fashion at the art museum Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm, 24 April-3 October.
