BFA THESIS: GP X DET
Athletic apparel
WOMEN’S TOPS, BOTTOMS
Once a cinderblock wall, once a mound of snow in the middle of the street. Now, a roundabout that prohibits residents from leaving and deters outsiders from entering.
The meeting point of Detroit and neighboring suburb, Grosse Pointe, are permanently divided at the intersection of Kercheval Avenue and Alter Road. The divide reinforces socioeconomic, racial, and ideological differences; and is only blocks from my childhood home.
As an avid runner, the rules were to run in the daylight, stay on busy streets, and never go past the border. To confront the socioeconomic and racial divides this border reinforces, I engineered a collection of high performance running garments depicting the border in its current state, and a proposal for what it should look like in the future.
