Central Saint Martins graduate Jessan Macatangay incorporated deconstructed chairs into his striking fashion collection, to symbolise how people carry the weight of personal struggles.
Titled Finding Beauty and Power in Struggle, the collection is comprised of five different looks that become progressively lighter and less bulky, as they gradually include fewer furniture elements.
Each piece incorporates pieces of deconstructed chair frames and buckle-like elements, as well as layers of drapery made from lycra jersey and silk satin.

In the first look, the whole chair frame has been built into the garment, while in the second and third looks several parts of a frame have been woven into the fabric.
The structural elements are then reduced to buckle-like designs, based on the structure of ladderback chairs, in the last two looks. As the designer explains, these small square wooden buckles represent "the tiny remaining fragments of struggle" left in individuals ? camouflaged, but still visible.

"I used the chairs to represent struggle," Macatangay told Dezeen. "Even though a chair is made for you to rest, when you put it in a different position on a body, you give it an opposite power that becomes heavy and painful."
"Everyone has struggle. That is unavoidable. So, the best solution is finding beauty in struggle, because at the end of every struggle is success and power. But how do you find beauty in struggle""
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