My pocket fits everything
Leather workshop skirt (for the long metalworking sessions with no pockets)
November 2022
Made in the frame of a week-long project under the supervision of Kostas Lambridis
All the pieces of the apron are made from pieces of a 28 x 23 x 5 cm bag from Enrico Coveri
Why do womenswear clothing have no pockets?
This question, so often asked, seems to be in the continuity of an old tradition of rejecting practical matters when designing womenswear, and even more than that, creating an aesthetic out of it.
The objects surrounding us shape our behaviours, and garments are no exception to it. I wondered why, as a person wearing mostly womenswear, I was constantly forced to find last minute solutions to counter the lack of pockets on my clothes: taping things on my hips, stuffing my sleeves, wearing cables around my necks... My clothing imply that the common imaginary associated to my gender does not integrate manual work.
I decided to not be forever dependant of that absurd situation. I played with the formal ambiguity of the skirt and of the workshop apron, to make an object which hopefully, will not perpetuate this tradition.
(And the pocket can fit my computer, my cables, my headphones, my tools, everything a bag would usually fit, without any problems.)