The Clothing Apparatus

The Clothing Apparatus is one of the spin-off design projects rooted in the project RN: The Past, Present, and Future of the Nurse’s Uniform, 2003/04. The Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia.

All Puett design is fixated on being a practice – wellness, and comfort plus accessibility and ease. Sometimes complex(ity) is the path, as in all her work. Modular clothing makes sense as we grow and co-evolve to a future of sustainability. Recycling clothing has been a long practice for Puett for decades. Opening the atelier, The Department of Interstitchiaries 2010, during a research session at Mildred’s Lane in 2009, titled Retail in the 21st Century – R 21c.

R 21c. was a dynamic group of friends and Fellows discoursing around the possibilities – dreams and schemes – for an ecological approach that would challenge the industries ruled by a few. corporations that have one only thing in focus, and that is not about our well-being.

The group was engaged with the J Morgan Puett Archive of Clothing, and they spent a few years pulling things apart and putting them back together again in new forms. For Puett, this has been a long-term engagement, and dozens of young artists and designers have experienced the new possibilities in her atelier of experimentation.

After a long digression in Puett’s projects at Mildred’s Lane, she is reassembling the threads and is reopening a new discreet space in the Hamlet of Narrowsburg, NY, on the Upper Delaware River.

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