Graphic Designer
NOT SO ORDINARY TIMES
I AM THOU, THOU ART ME
For this Fashion senior thesis collection, Not So Ordinary Times, fashion designer Emma Huey presents the story of highlighting the taboos of the Catholic Church.The ingenuity behind this collection reflects her personal background of the Catholic Church and why she left. This collection is intended to create friction amongst the church and show the rebellious nature of a woman that the church has degraded over thousands of years.
MJ Huey presented me the opportunity to create her fashion film acting as the director of photography and editor. I was challenged with creating a narrative for this collection from scratch, using her collection’s ideation as inspiration. I ended up creating a film that focuses on the uneasy experience of women in the church, and their ultimate decision to leave. It prompts the suggestion that through different experiences, all women are all the same, aiming towards one unified goal — saving women of the church.
THE COLLECTION
“A collection that is inspired by the trials and tribulations of my upbringing in the Catholic Church. For the longest time, I felt a sense of guilt for blaming my traumas on the church. Still, the force of it all inspired me to transform my personal experience into something beautiful and heal from what I know as the familiarity of a previous life.”
- MJ Huey
Creative Director of ‘Not So Ordinary Times’FINAL CUT
As the story followed the standards and expectations of women, I wanted to create this sense that they were looking at reflections of themselves. The women in the pews anxiously awaiting their orders — their scripture. Facing them at the altar lied themselves, holding the flames of their faith, burning bright. Every women has their own experience, but their outwardly role within the church from a man’s point of view is all the same. Therefore, every woman was not only a reflection of herself, but a reflection of all the women around her. All women are one. This is a piece meant to uplift the woman in an unconventional, perhaps controversial manner. The focus splits between Huey’s garments of her collection, with a lot of allusions to the Catholic Church and faith, and being unforgiven.
The goal is to help designer MJ Huey provide her personal commentary of her experience of the church, and how she feels about its treatment towards women in general and how it helped her grow a different perspective to speak out about.