GREY BUSCEMI
"My work started with a BA economics thesis on the garment industry in Southeast Asia. What I found was that sewing is skilled enough to resist automation, but the garments it produces cannot carry a price that pays the people making them fairly. I decided to design around it, and developed methods of garment construction that use no sewing at all. Looking back, I can trace the practice to my lineage, an Italian grandfather who was a bespoke tailor and a Korean grandfather who was an engineer with many patents of his own. I take my technical references from scenarios of invention, early aviation, broadcast and communication hardware, and the drawings and mechanisms that made them possible. The garments are assembled by the same logic as those references, through joints, fixings and tolerances rather than stitches, so the construction carries the history it came from."
- Discipline
- Womenswear & Jewellery
- Based
- New York & London
- Training
- Central Saint Martins, MA Fashion, 2026. Previously BA Economics, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2022.
- Materials
- None of my garments involve any sewing, so the making techniques shift with the theme of each collection. My process is heavily digital, mostly Rhino, Grasshopper, Shapr3D and CLO3D, with Photoshop throughout. Materials tend to be natural: veg tan leather, paper, ultra thin plywood, silk, linen, calico. For jewelry I work exclusively in lost-wax casting, designing pieces so that even jointed ones can be cast in a single pour.
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Coming up
- "SS27 capsule releasing in October 2026, and maybe some jewellery along the way."