Joseph William Raidt

Joseph William Raidt is a fashion designer who communicates through radical experimentation with form and absurd constructions. By designing and building sculptural garments, he challenges and redefines traditional approaches to clothing, creating wearable works that blur the line between fashion and art.

“People on People is a collection that, like much of my work, explores the transformation of shapes into extensions of the body. I have always been obsessed with challenging and redefining traditional garment construction. What began as old mattress foam, carved and stacked into rough shapes, slowly evolved into more

A realm I’ve been eager to continue exploring is the human body as a shape in itself: familiar, organic, irregular, intricate. People on People imagines sculptural pieces closer to the body — surrealist garments rooted in human anatomy. What could it look like to wear your own body? To wear another’s? To become another’s body? To merge bodies? To morph bodies?”