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I did not start in garment construction. I started in survival.<\/span><\/p>

I graduated in Kyiv just as the old system was falling apart and the new one had not figured itself out yet.<\/p>

I wanted to design clothing. The economy had other ideas.<\/p>

So I sold clothes. Then I bought clothes. Then I spent years chasing the places where clothes were made. China. Turkey. Italy.<\/p>

Everyone was looking for products. I became interested in the mistakes.<\/p>

A jacket that looked perfect on the hanger and hopeless on a person. A beautiful fabric wrapped around a bad pattern. A factory that saved three cents and ruined three months of work.<\/p>

Eventually I stopped asking whether a garment looked good. I wanted to know why it worked. Or why it didn\u2019t.<\/p>

That question led me into patterns, production, fit, factory floors and fittings. And more conversations about shoulders than any normal person should have in one lifetime.<\/p>

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Thirty years later, I still find the same thing fascinating. Not fashion. Not trends. The chain of decisions that turns fabric into clothing and clothing into confidence.<\/p>

Most people see the finished garment. I have always been curious about everything that happened before.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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I did not start in garment construction. I started in survival. I graduated in Kyiv just as the old system was falling apart and the new one had not figured itself out yet. I wanted to design clothing. The economy had other ideas. So I sold clothes. Then I bought clothes. Then I spent years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"hide","_kad_post_layout":"fullwidth","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"unboxed","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"hide","_kad_post_feature":"hide","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-420","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tayorchard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tayorchard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tayorchard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tayorchard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tayorchard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/tayorchard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/tayorchard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tayorchard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}