Emma Bruschi (FR)
Wearing Landscape
30 août – 5 septembre 2026
Emma Bruschi France
Emma Bruschi graduated from the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva with a Master’s degree in Fashion and Accessories Design in 2019. As a fashion designer, she was awarded the 19M Prix des Métiers d’art de CHANEL at the 35th Festival International de Mode, de Photographie et d’Accessoires de Mode in Hyères (2020) for her Almanach collection.
Raw materials, craftsmanship, transmission, and experimentation lie at the core of her practice. She considers territory as a primary resource, drawing inspiration from places that hold personal significance. A sense of nostalgia, calm, and slowness characterizes her work.
Since 2021, she has been cultivating rye on her family’s farm, using it in the production of garments, accessories, and harvest bouquets. Her aim is to cultivate the land and work with her own materials, bridging the roles of farmer and designer. In 2024, she published Savoir & Faire: Objets et gestes d’autrefois, a book exploring forgotten techniques through a collection of ten objects.
www.emmabruschi.fr
L’atelier
Wearing Landscape is a research-based workshop that invites participants to conceive and produce garments and accessories using raw plants—wild or cultivated—collected in the vicinity of Boisbuchet. A special focus will be placed on experimentation with straw, exploring techniques such as braiding, twining, spinning, crocheting, and weaving that Bruschi has developed over the years. Each participant will select a plant from the Domaine to experiment with and transform into a textile surface.
Nourished by both theoretical input and hands-on research, we will learn how to transform our harvest into wearable elements—garments and accessories—while rediscovering the history and technical potential of plants in textile making and fashion.
The course will include both individual and group sessions. Our shared goal will be to conceive and produce a folk costume capable of evoking the identity of the territory in which Boisbuchet is situated. Dressed from head to toe in vegetal elements gathered from the surrounding landscape, the costume will seek to reconsider the role of folklore today, reimagine its forms, and celebrate the relationship between nature and culture. At the end of the workshop, we will present the costume and the research behind it. Its final form will result from collective decisions and shared effort.
Wearing Landscape is conceived as a collaborative project guided by exchange and transmission, where participants learn from one another while developing their own research and contributing their individual sensibility to a common outcome.