Kaeli Linton
Systems & Society
HELD IN THE SEAMS
Held in the Seams is an exploration of how clothing carries us. Through time, through absence, through memory. As both a writer and designer, I turn to fabric as a form of storytelling, asking how garments might preserve not only a moment in time, but the relationships, feelings, and inheritances stitched within them.
In a culture shaped by disposability, this project becomes a refusal to let go. It reimagines clothing not as product, but as emotional infrastructure. Something that binds us to ourselves, to the people we love, and to the histories we carry forward. By embedding narrative into garments and creating space for others to do the same, Held in the Seams offers a system for remembering, reconnecting, and holding on.
Bio
Kaeli Linton is a writer and designer based in New York, originally from Michigan. She works at the intersection of narrative and fashion, using garments to explore memory, emotional continuity, and care. Her practice spans textile reconstruction, storytelling, and archival design, often drawing from personal history to ask broader questions about what we choose to hold onto. Through both written and material forms, she is interested in how clothing can reconnect us—to ourselves, to each other, and to the stories we carry.