February 2025
FW25
Always dedicated to iterative investigations into innovative methods, techniques, themes, and color-ways, JRAT’s FW25 collection, HOMESICK, AGAIN, is an expanded exploration of the concepts explored within the first iteration of the series which was presented in September 2024 to warm reception.
The spirit of HOMESICK, AGAIN is playful yet somber; it can hold space for both hope and reality. Like a child’s perspective in the face of an untenable situation, the collection offers new ideas even if they’re impractical and fit only for an imagined world.
A variety of laborious zero waste textile manipulations have been utilized within the collection once again, including: sewn scraps, zero waste pattern drafting, and hand painted textiles. Sparkling ceramic buttons line the fronts of dresses and skirts, created in collaboration with Seattle based ceramists Jessica Marie Mercy.
Found and reclaimed garments common to some wardrobes, like button ups, khakis and slacks, sweaters, hoodies, medical scrubs, and more–have been reworked through JRAT’s unique adaption of chenille by stacking, sewing, slashing, and smashing together homogenous and disparate pieces alike, with the resulting OOAK garments evoking a laundry basket tipped over onto a child’s dress up box. The collection contains pieces which are familiar yet foreign representation of traditional apparel as well as new considerations in silhouette and aesthetics that verges into the world of the absurd; HOMESICK, AGAIN is weighty and exhausting, like a fever dream when asleep on a vinyl couch.
With consideration to the political developments of November 2024, the collection ultimately embodies an alternate experience of deja vu; a deja vu one might hope to experience in a dream. The feeling of: I’ve been here before, I’m here again, and it’s all different, yet exactly the same. HOMESICK, AGAIN offers comfort and safety in the face of uncertainty and fear.
Watch the HOMESICK, AGAIN runway here.
Click here for the HOMESICK, AGAIN Lookbook
Click here for the HOMESICK, AGAIN Linesheet
Models (in order of walk)
Akeem @akeemasmith
Veronica @veroocampos
Cristina @pmoyacristina
Debarati @whilingaway
Ellen @thanksalotellen
Zo @mingus.14
Niz @nizjahangir
Adiam @adiammyemane
Sarah @sarahhhhhart
Bryan @bryantesta18
Caitlin @caitlinmayernik
Bonnie @bon.bon.mot
Sophie @atomheartmommy
Jalyn @jalynpostadan
Aline @bichobk
Aurora @aurorasanmiguel
Stassii @stas.sii
Midiya @midee_ya_1
Valentina @vacavache
David @davidrosslawn
Venue: Kaleidoscope @kaleidoscope.bk
Music: Keyes Wiley (DJ Dark Wiley) @dark_wiley
Lead Stylist: Em Seely-Katz @that.esque
Hair Artist: Ryuan Kennedy @sexyscalps
Hair Assistants: Jet Keefe @jetkeefebeauty
Toireza @killerheads
Caeli Harris @caeli.harris
Ondine @ondine_ondine
Lead Photography: Blue @sustainablequeer
Assistant Photography: Lu Testa @107_luvt
BTS Photography: Victoria Campa @vwcampa
Videography: Nina Bowers @ninabowers
Assistants: Zoe Waechter @zoewaechter Theo Chhan @overbit333
Lookbook and Runway Photography by Blue and Lu Testa
Photography and collage by Victoria Campa
Photography by Ripple Fang