RE-Purposed to Empower
Designer: ashley Oldham
Model: Leslie Hacker & Claudia Filinger
Photographer: Alexia King
“Jeans, the garment created for working men in the mid 1800s, represents so much more today. Pioneering women, and their actions against social and political forms of oppression, have changed the function of this garment to one that anyone, regardless of gender, can use as a form of self expression and identity.”