Dress Your Imagination
Martha Haversham
Trashion is an art movement.
Smallditch is where it happens...
In 2017 I went for a walk in my lunch break and I found a beautiful skirt. Some would see just a dirty chewing gum wrapper. I saw an exquisite party dress, the perfect fit for my Pippa doll. Leaves, fallen petals, discarded cigarette butts.. they all became a timeless variety of luxurious litter looks. Through this lens, this small and playful scale, the world was not so rubbish any more.
My practice combines hand-cut paper collage and photography. Every garment, hat or accessory lives in the moment, captured at it's best in natural light.
Every day I create seasonal trashion and share it with the world. I make an ugly act into a pretty picture; transforming throwaway debris into objects of desire within an artistic space called Smallditch. We can all go there, it is a rich place to be with a stockroom filled with aesthetic value. My sought-after collections are found washed-up on beaches, on every high street.. Let me dress your imagination.
- Martha Haversham
Pippa
I lost my knickers a long time ago and I’ve only got one shoe, but none of that matters because being a plastic dolly, I will outlive you all. I reckon 600 years in landfill (heaven forbid) a bit like a toothbrush.
- Martha's Palitoy Pippa doll muse
December 2024
The Muse
Handmade in Clacton-on-Sea
From pink collars to invisibility cloaks; years of experience has gone into the making of these investment pieces.
My label sees the world through a shared lens of creativity that seeks perspective and not to cast blame.
Each garment, hat or accessory has been lovingly repurposed from the overlooked and down-trodden and transformed into petite objects of desire.
- Martha Haversham
I take playfulness seriously, it is everywhere I look; I take aesthetics seriously, it values everything I see and I take luxury seriously, it is what I do - Martha Haversham