Holliston November 2018

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Artist Spotlight: Stevie Leigh Andrascik
Stevie Leigh, originally from
upstate New York, has been sewing
since she was 11. She studied
fashion design in New York
city, which she says wasn’t a huge
jump to the city to attend school.
“I’m an environmentalist in
general, always someone who
made my own stuff and reused,
recycled. Sustainability really
piqued my interest.”
Fashion, she learned was one
of the most polluting industries.
“It’s wasteful. Extra dye, all
that water runoff, the water used
in making the materials even
when you cut the fabric just making
a t-shirt. All of that extra fabric
they just throw away. Between
five and 10% of good material is
just gone,” she says.
The world we live in, says Stevie
Leigh, seems to be moving in
a direction in which people are
“thinking about the world in general,
like H&M and their ‘conscience’
line.”
Following graduation, Stevie
Leigh started working in a Metrowest
Mass. tailor shop.
“All this good denim goes
to waste. We just throw it out,”
she says. Starting last year, she
began to design clothing using
the wasted material. “I make a
whole bunch of apparel out of
denim scraps that would have
been thrown away,” she says.
The Hopkinton resident estimates
she saves about 20 lbs. of
denim from the shop in which
she works and a few others in the
area.
Her style is to dive into her
work.
“I’m not someone who
sketches a lot. I like to see the
material, play with the material,
work with it in 3D from a big bag
of denim scraps,” she says. “I’m
very much inspired by music in
general, and I kind of have a
little bit of a punk look, with distressed
denim, band t-shirts and
logos and stuff. They’re one of
a kind. No one else is going to
have them, and they’re genderless,
good for a man or a woman,
multifunctional, and most things
are reversible as well.”
Stevie Leigh says she doesn’t
bother to follow too many designers,
but she looks around at
current trends. Still, she says, “I
kind of just go my own way all
the time, regardless. I’ve always
been someone who stands out.”
Andrascik’s work is functional,
wearable art, she says, something
you interact with every day.
“There’s a lot that goes into
making a garment, just starting
with finding the right material,”
she says. For her, she must first
sew scraps together to make usable
material. “Each square is
probably 4-5 inches, she says, “so
you need many of those to fit a
body. I catch them all together to
make my fabric.”
Stevie Leigh sometimes takes
the fabric right to the dress form,
or she makes paper designs, creating
the bodice, the sleeves, the
collar. Then she must sew it together
and add such items as zippers,
pockets, and buttons.
“There are many steps to
make custom design like I do,”
she says. “I really like just being
creative and just listening to
whatever I want to express.”
#REMIX by Stevie Leigh
can currently be found at various
Arts Markets in the Boston.
In fact, this summer she had a
table at the artisans’ market at
the Rose Kennedy Greenway
in Boston. You can find her at
the Open Studios, or online at
http://itsmestevieleigh.com/ or
https://www.instagram.com/
ItsMeStevieLeigh/.
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