Female Magazine's January 2020 Art Issue

An excerpt from Keng Yang Shuen's feature on A Stubborn Bloom:

"By and large, fashion suffers from a bad rep as a pin-up figure – consumerism, excess and so on. With the three-month-old collective A Stubborn Bloom, founders Burt and Monasterios-Tan – both educators at Lasalle College of the Arts – hope to give it more weight and dimension. Don’t expect the typical mannequins-juxtaposed-with-cultural-artefacts sort of fashion exhibition at their debut, yet-to-be-named show launching at Gillman Barracks in April though.
Burt, for example, will reveal works similar to the abstract installations that she’s known for – whimsical mixed media sculptures that contrast delicate materials such as ribbon and lace with the industrial. Their stylish, pastel-pepped Instagram account (@a_stubborn_bloom) offers more of a peek of their inspirations: images of vintage Mary Quant paper dolls; a teenage Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides; the cloud-like dresses of current fashion It girl favourite Cecilie Bahnsen, to name a few – though what they’ll lead to is anyone’s guess for now."

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The Duo Behind A Stubborn Bloom Are The Academics Redefining The Fashion Exhibition