Our relationship with clothes is nuanced, complex & complicated.
Even if you love getting dressed and feel clothing has a positive impact on you, the clothes you choose change how you see yourself and your body. They represent who you are and create opportunities for responses from, and connections with, others.
O.R.W.C. is a soft activism project that seeks to cultivate a positive connection between people and their clothing. We create safe spaces for reflection and conversations while spreading awareness of overconsumption and textile waste. We believe in the power of clothes, but not at the cost of other people or the planet.
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My Relationship With Clothes
Melbourne, 2024
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Reflection Cube
Melbourne, Ongoing
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Future Fashion
Melbourne, 2023
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Outside
Paris, 2022
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Grounded
Scandinavia, 2024
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A relationship with clothes is how you feel about clothes and how they make you feel. It shapes what you choose to wear, how you care for your clothes, and how they reflect and influence your identity.
Soft activism is the power of change within you. It reflects your beliefs and emphasises listening, learning and making informed decisions to drive change in a subtle yet impactful way.
Small changes by many are more powerful than significant changes by few.
What your clothes are made from and how each material feels, functions, and impacts the world is important to your relationship with clothes. Explore the full index to connect with the foundation of your clothing.
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We don’t shop for clothes.
We shop for confidence, for connection, for identity. Sometimes we’re searching for clarity. Other times, for comfort, belonging - even a sense of worth.
Often, we find ourselves stuck in cycles we don’t believe in - chasing newness, feeling guilt, and losing our sense of self.
This community invites you to pause, to reflect, to reconnect.
Because it’s not about buying the right thing - it’s about becoming the person who knows what feels right.
The Our Relationship With Clothes (O.R.W.C.) project is a space for everyone. Whether you’re already on the path to understand your relationship with what you wear, wanting to repair it or just beginning to explore how clothes make you feel. This community is here to meet you where you are, normalising asking questions, having conversations and listening from a place of love and respect.
We believe in progress, not perfection.