Visualizing seam rippers as scalpels, Photographer Hailley Fayle drew a parallel between designers and doctors after interviewing Fashion Designer Adrienne Goodine for Issue 13 - Working Art.

“These are the necessary tools to open your heart to new possibilities and diagnose your purpose.”

—Hailley Fayle, Freelance Photographer, Photo Studio Lab Technician at NBCCD and, CreatedHere Magazine Content Developer

The COVID-19 pandemic gave artists something they can’t always give themselves: the fortitude to objectively dissect their process and the time to rediscover their roots.

This intimate process can feel a bit like performing open heart surgery on yourself. To conduct this procedure you need to have the time to cut through the industry noise surrounding your practice and the courage to dig deep as you re-examine the reason you became an artist in the first place. These are the necessary tools to open your heart to new possibilities and diagnose your purpose.

On the verge of opening a new studio, Adrienne Goodine found herself lost in newly rented space. With excess materials on hand and customers no longer buying (regardless of online alternatives) she needed a solution to maintain her family income while staying true. The pandemic had already ripped her goals at the seams; she wasn’t about to let these adverse conditions trim the remaining filaments holding her together.

With the silence of the city looming, Adrienne was finally able to discover a cure for her concerns – fabric community masks. The world’s newest survival necessity had become a mandatory accessory, and Adrienne saw an opportunity to help others while continuing to work in her industry. Despite the impact COVID-19 had on her small local business, Adrienne was able to deconstruct her practice.

In addition to making masks, she rekindled the love she initially had for the slow, complex process of creating made-to-measure garments. “It’s allowed me to rediscover the reason I started my fashion career; the art of designing one-of-a-kind designer pieces of wearable fine art. I love couture.”

Fashion has always been a way for an individual to express the details of who they are without having to say a word. There is irony in this considering the newest survival-necessity-accessory covers the mouth and muffles the voice. Iconic fashion photographer Bill Cunningham once said “Fashion is the armour to survive the reality of everyday life.”

Masks have become a part of this armour, and this has become our new reality.

Photography and words by Hailley Fayle

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Fashion by Adrienne Goodine

Visit her new studio at the corner of Queen & King St in Fredericton, above Robert Simmonds

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[Working Art] Hailley Fayle | Dissection of Self: Adrienne Goodine