MDes Fashion & Textiles School of Design
Josh Jensen

Josh Jensen is a self-taught regenerative designer from Iowa using recycled and upcycled materials to create unique garments that are fluid, practical, and expressive
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presence, absence
what clothes do our shadows wear?
guided by the work of Mona Hatoum, Vivian Maier, Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, and the techniques of camera-less photography, I explored my own relationship with my shadow self – an introspective process led by my thoughts, memories, and tension between my public and private self. by embracing the ambiguity and quiet intensity of the unseen, I navigated a path to dress the body and the space it leaves behind.
built from repurposed garments using a zero-waste approach and designed to be size adaptive and gender inclusive, this project fits within a regenerative fashion ecosystem. deconstructed and reconstructed garments are transformed: gathering, tying, cutting, and sublimation printing distort and layer, shaping absence into presence.



