LONDON, Friday, 19th September 2025: JCA Fashion: Entrepreneurship in Design & Brand Innovation learner Sophie Hollands will debut a bare c, at the JCA MA Show at Westmount Rooftop Terrace in White City on 19th September.
The collection introduces a modular clothing system designed to adapt,
detach, and reconfigure. ‘a bare c’ began as a styling study, experimenting with the human relationship with clothes. A challenge to minimalism – fewer garments, greater function.
Informed by research into uniforms and packing systems, the project asked how
little could be designed while still fulfilling the needs of the wearer.
Built on three elements magnet, zip, textile and one logic. Interchangeable
collars, hoods, and extensions connect through concealed engineering, creating
a collection that is minimal in number but expansive in possibility.
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Materials consist of dead-stock, sourced from British mills; waxed cottons,
parachute nylon, poplins chosen for durability, and tactility. The colours of cornflour blue, salt white, concrete, slate grey, ink black, harbour navy and waxed earth brown were chosen for their familiarity and dependability.
a bare c is conceived as a long-term system: garments as tools, to be worn,
folded, stowed, and reassembled over time. The philosophy is simple one
garment, many forms allowing the wearer to live inside the piece and express
outside of it.
