Lydia Snow Austin

Lydia Snow Austin

Materiality

Bustling Garden

“Flora and fauna of home, personified”
Bustling Garden is a reflection of the personified flora and fauna in my beloved childhood collection of children’s books. Congruently, it represents the flowers and vines native to my family’s small polycultural farm in rural Massachusetts. This collection realizes the fantasy that the plants and creatures living at my childhood home have a human-like will to gather and collect pieces of their surrounding natural world to clothe and adorn themselves with its beauty.
Image: Look01 Details: 100% wool coat with rabbit fur trim and assorted buttons
Image: Look02 Details: 100% cotton vintage calico fabrics, collected by my grandmother and mother from 1915 onwards, hand-beaded and embroidered embelishments, mother of pearl buttons
Image: Look03 Details: 100% linen, 100% silk organza- printed with photographs of flowers, bees, and grass taken at my family farm in Massachusetts.
Image: Look04 Details: 100% wool herringbone, 90% wool 10% cashmere double faced wool, assorted buttons
Image: Look05 Details: 100% silk taffeta, silk shantung, silk organza- layered and folded into origami hydrangea petals
Image: As a child, my mom sat on my brother’s acorn-printed couch every night and read children’s books to him and me. My favorites always had the most beautiful imagery for me: flora and fauna, elves and gnomes, and other woodland creatures. The reading of these children’s books strongly influenced the way I interacted with the farm around me.
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Bio

Lydia Snow Austin is a designer and textile artist based in New York City and New England. Her work is primarily driven by nostalgia, expressed through handwork such as quilting and embellishment, and demonstrated in natural fibers on classic and romantic silhouettes.

Lydia's collection title, "Bustling Garden," speaks to the goings on of a fantastical garden where plants and creatures dwell just as humans do. Hydrangeas, beetles, cosmos, chipmunks, and the rest all live in harmony with each other and the world around them. These characters all have their own unique sense of dress, adorned with petals, fur, and so much more.

Contact:

Website: lydia-austinInstagram: lydiasaustinEmail: lydiaaustin7@gmail.comPhone: (781) 801-3916
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