OVER THE PAST DECADE, STERLING RUBY HAS CREATED CLOTHING ALONGSIDE HIS ARTWORK, DEVELOPING GARMENTS FROM THE SAME HANDWORKED FABRICS FEATURED IN HIS PIECES, AND EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SAME INQUIRIES, IDEOLOGIES, AND AESTHETIC PURSUITS.
INSPIRED BY AMERICAN TRADITIONS, CULTURE, AND CRAFT, AND INFORMED BY YEARS OF TEXTILE DEVELOPMENT, THE CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES OF S.R. STUDIO. LA. CA. EXIST IN CONVERSATION WITH RUBY’S PREVIOUS WORK AND FURTHER HIS INVESTIGATION OF UTILITY AS A WEARABLE ITERATION OF IT.
EXPLORING DRESSING AS A MODE AKIN TO COLLAGE, THE COLLECTION BRIDGES A DIVIDE BETWEEN FORM AND FUNCTION, ILLUSTRATING THEIR RELATIONSHIP INSTEAD. WORKWEAR SILHOUETTES ARE ENRICHED WITH HANDWORKED TREATMENTS. THE PROCESS OF DYEING AND BLEACHING IS MAPPED ACROSS FABRICS IN UNIQUE MOTIFS. PRINTS ADAPTED FROM ORIGINAL PIECES BY RUBY ARE EMBLAZONED ON EVERYDAY T-SHIRTS. ONE-OF-A-KIND LOOKS SIT ALONGSIDE DENIM.
WITH A CONFLUENCE OF TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS, THE COLLECTION SIGNIFIES A NATURAL EVOLUTION OF RUBY’S INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK—AND CELEBRATES A DECIDEDLY NEW DIRECTION.
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SOTO
CONSTRUCTED FROM FABRICS HANDWORKED BY STERLING RUBY STUDIO, SOTO PIECES EXHIBIT THEIR MEANS OF CREATION WITH UNIQUE DETAILS HANDWRITTEN ON ALL ORANGE SOTO LABELS—THE DAY EACH FABRIC LOT WAS PRODUCED AND THE MEASUREMENT OF YARDAGE IT CONTAINS—AND SINGULAR MOTIFS.
ED. 50
A COLLECTION OF LIMITED-EDITION STYLES—FEATURING CUSTOM PRINTS ADAPTED FROM ARTWORK BY STERLING RUBY—PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY IN QUANTITIES OF 50. A BLACK ED. 50 LABEL SYMBOLIZES THE EDITIONING AND RARITY OF EACH PIECE.
UNIQUE
ONE-OF-A-KIND PIECES DESIGNED AND REALIZED BY STERLING RUBY, CONTINUING AN EXPLORATION OF TEXTILES A DECADE IN THE MAKING. EACH PIECE EXAMINES THE MEDIUM’S INHERENT MEANING—ITS HISTORY, UTILITY, AND CRAFT TRADITION—AND EXPANDS ITS NARRATIVE POSSIBILITIES THROUGH A COLLAGE OF MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES.
OBJECTS
EVERYDAY ACCESSORIES—FROM BASKETS TO PURSES—ARE REIMAGINED AS WEARABLE ARTIFACTS. TOOLS AND MATERIALS ESSENTIAL TO THE STUDIO’S WORK—AND SYMBOLIC OF STERLING RUBY’S UPBRINGING—SERVE AS AN ODE TO UTILITY.
PRODUCED ONLY IN LIMITED EDITION QUANTITIES OF TEN. ENGRAVED WITH THE STUDIO’S LOGO.