Clothes are more than just clothes to Fair Fit Studio owner Andrea Eastin. They are works of art, conversations and stories.
As 225 details in a feature from its new issue, Eastin created Fair Fit Studio two years ago to share this idea with students and teach them how to make their own clothing.
She launched the studio as an outlet for her love of sewing, designing and teaching. She had tried other jobs in the fashion industry—having owned two clothing lines, participated in national and international fashion exhibitions and worked as a costume seamstress on the set of Pitch Perfect 2.
Despite all of that, she didn’t quite feel the same connection as she does with teaching.
“I realized I was going about my dream in all the wrong ways,” Eastin tells the magazine. “I wanted sustainability and a way to keep growing and keep creating.”
225 writes that Easton believes the fashion industry often takes creative expression and converts it to generic advertising and mass-produced clothing.
She loves clothes and fashion, but she wants to create items with a distinctive purpose. Her brand’s mantra is “make clothes on purpose, with purpose.”
Eastin’s personal designs exude her spunky personality. She isn’t afraid to mix patterns or pair two unassuming colors, and she encourages her students to experiment in similar ways.
“I see clothing as a means of communication,” she says. “As a teacher, I want people to understand that clothing is a way to tell stories, and that they should design their clothes with the purpose to tell those stories.”
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