Bode’s inspiring temporary studio space is in the wilds of Canada.
Inspired by her family’s ties to a 19th-century wagon-building workshop in Cincinnati and designed in collaboration with Eric Wrenn, the new look also reflects Bode’s instinct for storytelling. The website itself is intended as something of a digital recreation of the greenhouse Bode is currently working out of.
It’s something that has become especially interesting during this period of lockdown. As many find themselves with time on their hands to sort through their closets, or back home with their families, they’re discovering everything from heritage quilts to their grandmother’s table linens, just the kind of personality-rich textiles that can be repurposed by Bode’s team into garments.
So too are many of the pieces Bode is launching on her new website. “In some ways it’s like stepping back a few years, to when I was first making clothes for friends in my apartment,” Bode explains. “I’m steaming the clothes, I’m mending them, I’mlabels on them. You know, things that I haven't done in a few years as the business has grown bigger. It feels like coming full circle, in a way.”
And while Bode is pleased to see the spirit of generations past revived during the lockdown, her general belief is that we have to be looking beyond fashion for solutions to find a way out of the current crisis. “I think about people that I care about and I love and their traumatic situations every day, and it’s hard to not feel a sense of shame almost at being healthy right now,” Bode adds. “But then you realize everyone’s going through the same thing.
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