IN TENTS: THE AFTER PARTY
“In Tents: The After Party is our first collection, made entirely from up-cycled tents. The idea for the collection began at the sighting of a Sad Clown that was hidden behind a trailer at a festival in 2018. I used the sad clown as a metaphor and an ode to the abandoned tents that my friends and I collected when the festival was over. Much of the original hardware and components are used within the garments to achieve authentic and recognisable details within each piece. For this collection, I collaborated with weaver Alexandra Lucas to create statement woven pieces and jewellery made from tent pegs by Belle Smith.
Pieces from this collection were then developed further and later launched at Selfridges, London as part of their Bright New Things sustainability initiative.”
“I took this tent to quite a few festivals with me, I worked all the bars so that I could get a free ticket! I worked at Reading, Festival Number 7 & Shambala festival in 2015. I also wild camped around Scotland in it too.”
“Our green tent is a family heirloom. We have some fond memories of spontaneous weekends travelling the coast in Cornwall. Typically in the UK, it would never fail to rain when we arrived and had to put the tent up. My partner and I would put up this huge 8 man tent in torrential rain. It was always worth it when you’d finally got the tent up and could have a cup of tea and read a book whilst listening to the rain pattering on the outside of the tent.
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“About the tent... we spent a couple of nights in Brecon Beacons - a private farm and wild camping. Also, I remember we went to Llyn Gwynant near Snowdonia for two nights and carried it to the top of the mountain, it was insane. Haha! What else? Not much! But we had a comfortable time with it.
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“My green and black little wonder has got me through a handful of UK festivals and silly weather. 2 boomtowns, 2 secret garden parties, a few smaller festivals outside of Brighton and a camping excursion here and there.
My favourite memory was at the last Secret Garden Party, it was dry most weekend but come Sunday the heavens opened. My tent was the most spacious and waterproof out of friends so at the end of the night all muddy and caked in glitter from the magical weekend the party got to carry on with as many that could fit together in my trusty tent!
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