Sadie Jo Frazier

Sadie Jo Frazier

Collection

In Case of My Death

What is left when you are gone? In Case of My Death a response to this question by examining the importance of heirlooms and how these material possessions come to define us after our passing. These precious objects outlive our temporal bodies and our interaction with them plays a vital part in understanding ourselves in a greater context.
In this collection, I am exploring this phenomenon by unearthing family articles such as quilts, hair, and journals, and connecting them to stories, ultimately building the greater narrative of personal history while incorporating aspects of my own identity and juxtaposing them with historical reference. This collection investigates how memory is kept alive through inherited objects. It explores what is precious and how we relate to these physical traces on a familial level.
Image: Look 1: Hand appliqued braid top from vintage scraps. Bodice made from a vintage pillow case with cotton organcy sleeves and colorful bias tape finishings. Wrap shorts are cotton canvas with patch pocket and bloomers underneath.
Image: Look 2: Pieced wrap house dress made from over 350 individual pieces of vintage feedsack and second hand fabric scraps with 4 panels of applique/embroidery.
Image: Look 4: Patchwork skirt with cotton lace panels and pieced feedsack pockets.
Image: Paired with pintuck top made from vintage cotton petticoats, featuring hidden word embroidery and vintage novelty buttons.
Image: 4: Altered pretty housemaid corset made from vintage feed sacks overlayed in cotton organdy. Skirt is cotton organdy with a feedsack yoke and petticoat made from tea dyed vintage table clothes.
Image: Look 5: Asymmetrical gown made from vingtage table clothes with a feedsack and organdy "Pretty Housemaid" corset underneath
Image: Look 1: The Ancestor
Image: Look 2: The Heirloom
Image: Look 3: The Bride
Image: Look 4: The Letter
Image: Look 5: Memory

Thank You! Thank you!

Thank you to the most supportive and encouraging family! You have all shown me the importance of being my own person and have given me a space where I can be myself, which I am forever grateful for. 

This collection is dedicated to the most beautiful and important women in my life:

Thank you LaLa! For giving me my love of sewing and making. I’m happiest when I’m at your house, gabbing away with a needle and thread in my hands.

Thank you Maw Maw! For inspiring this collection and leaving me with such beautiful words to pour over and over again. I miss you so much, thank you for everything.

Thank you to my mother, Tammani! For encouraging me to pursue my passions and showing me how to stay true to myself. Thank you for being my best friend through thick and thin. 
Thank You to my Team! :D

Photographer: Sarah Hinds
Photo Assist: Zach Wassef
Videographer: Kayla Bernard
MUA: Jonathan Logan
Models: Lucy Fazenbaker, Yumi Shimizu, & Esme Munson

Thank you to Threefold Community Farm for allowing us to shoot on your beautiful property and making my NY farm dreams come true!

Thank you to Lyn Caponera and Neil Grotzinger for teaching and mentoring me this year, it was an absolute pleasure being in your class.

Bio

Sadie Jo Frazier is a designer and seamstress from Tyler, Texas. She uses fabric as a tool to explore identity and her relationship to the past. Sadie Jo often considers family history, drawing from early memories of rifling through her grandmother's cedar chest and jumping over hay bales at her family farm.

She applies historical knowledge to her garments, creating unique blends of silhouette and textile, mixing structural elements such as corsetry with intricate handiwork. Her designs often incorporate vintage textiles that emphasize sustainability, while coupled with her bold use of color,  infuse each garment with meaning, identity, and intention.

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