Fashion - Bachelor

Woolbound

Wool carries within it the record of where it grew — the weather it withstood, the land it grazed, the body of the animal that provided it. To me, it is not a blank material waiting for meaning; it arrives already embedded with it.

WOOLBOUND is a slow, tactile practice of tuning into wool and fibres — sensing and honouring what it carries and expressing that connection through silhouettes that breathe belonging. It is a meditation on origin as much as a collection, rooted in a love of fibre and touch, inviting a renewed closeness to the materials we wear and a gentler, more regenerative relationship with the nature we remain inseparable from.

Luzita Els

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What do we embed in our skin?
What do we embed in the earth’s skin?

SEEP

Wool and skin as porous surfaces, always absorbing what we wear and the environments we move through. Debris becomes evidence of the entanglement between body, fibre and landscape. Wool becomes a second skin reflecting our embeddedness within place.

Silk chiffon bias-cut wrap dress with softly felted wool and silk
Organically shaped wool-felted bra and brief with embedded flesh-toned fabric remnants and threads
Naturally hand-dyed with plants and food waste

FLOW

Fibres carry a life of their own, responding and changing with the forces around them. Like wind through grasses or water finding its way across a landscape, yarns follow organic paths across the body, celebrating the softness and interconnectedness of natural fibres.

Mohair yarns hand-sewn onto silk mesh
Silk mesh hand-dyed with food waste

EARTH’S SKIN

Soil, the living skin of earth. What we embed in it, we embed in ourselves.

Organically shaped, nuno-felted bra and skirt crafted from dark baby alpaca fleece, embedded with flesh-toned textile remnants
Sculptural, stitch-manipulated root details
Naturally hand-dyed with plants and food waste

BOUND

Cloth belongs to a living landscape, connected to the soil, the animals and the hands that shape it. A desire to reconnect with the land, and to recognise our place within its cycles of growth, renewal and reciprocity.

Sculptural nuno-felted neck piece with stitch-manipulated root detail
Merino wool long-sleeved top with contouring raw-edge seams
Organically shaped, frilled silk chiffon brief, nuno-felted with wool, binding remnants, silk, yarns and threads into a new textile
Naturally hand-dyed with plants and iron

RAw FLEECE

The wool in this collection began as raw fleece from Victoria Downs, Queensland, sourced via Queensland Spinners Weavers & Fibre Artists. Washed, carded, dyed, felted and formed by hand, it is not an anonymous commodity but a relationship, traced from its source to a finished garment.

The Australian Wool Education Trust bursary allowed me to work with wool as more than a material, and to go deeper into a fibre that continues to teach me. I am deeply grateful for their support.

MODEL: Jasmin Jurlina
PHOTOGRAPHY: Luzita Els
PHOTOGRAPHY (banner and outdoor images): Peter Roborg-Söndergaard

Luzita Els

Luzita Els is a fashion designer and artist whose practice is grounded in sustainable and regenerative thinking, intentionality, and craftsmanship. Guided by touch, texture, and a deep respect for material, she works with natural fibres and slow hand techniques to create garments that carry story, meaning, and emotional resonance. Her work invites a return to the earth and a gentler understanding of our place within its living systems.

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