Ashley Newsome

The designer and owner of Haberdashery, Ashley Newsome, is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Masters of Fine Art in Fashion.  She acquired a Bachelors of Fine Art in Art and Design and a Minor in Apparel Technology from the North Carolina State University College of Design and College of Textiles.  Study in these areas has directed her interests towards sustainable clothing design.  She is passionate about the advancement of craft culture as well as the implementation of green practices in the fashion industry.  Originally a North Carolina native from the coastal town of Lake Waccamaw, her upbringing has influenced her interest in a handcrafted aesthetic and inclination towards sustainable practices.  Her present work in fashion is a mash up of historically inspired techniques/aesthetics meeting modern styles.  She is also a community educator and lecturer, teaching various fashion and contemporary craft workshops in her local community and beyond.  An interest in indigenous cultures has led her to pursue scholarly research within the fields of anthropology and sociology in an effort to preserve craft culture and to inspire a new aesthetic, which is sustainable as well as artistically influential and socially conscious.

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