DUST:

Black Sunday

(Hyères 37th international festival of fashion, photography and fashion accessories -

Show Presentation)

- A collection based on the 1930’s ‘Dustbowl’ of America. A term of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies throughout the 1930’s, caused by a combination of both natural and man-made factors.

Outcomes within the collection are consequent to events during the period of the ‘dustbowl’, and interviewed accounts taken by those affected.

"On the fourteenth day of April in 1935 there struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky...from Oklahoma City to the Arizona line, Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down, we thought it was our judgment, we thought it was our doom...."

-Woody Guthrie