Fashion is an underrated art form and it can take you centuries back into the past when done right. Kristin Mallison’s garments will make you feel like you’ve stepped into a time machine since she’s repurposing vintage fabrics to craft beautiful retro skirts and corsets.
Mallison is a Brooklyn-based designer, who focuses on making handmade garments out of upholstery. Her corsets and skirts come together in a spectacular fashion, and her designs are as sustainable and unique as it gets.
Mallison looks for vintage jacquard fabrics from chairs, couch cushions, and mid-century throws and repurposes them to craft her signature designs. She usually attends antique auctions and browses through thrift stores to find materials for her corsets and skirts.
Mallison sells her garments on her official website, making sure to describe how they came together in great detail. She always tries to carefully describe the scenes featured on her fashion items and the origin of the fabrics she used to sew them together.
Since she uses one-of-the-kind upcycled materials, her designs are all unique in their own right. Mallison’s signature corsets put her on the map, but we’ve also seen her make all sorts of other retro items, from skirts to dresses.
