baily ann rose
wildly rose up on Ute land,
on the legendary Battle Mountain in Red Cliff, Colorada,
learning to knit in 4-H clubs from her Mamma Rose.
Been practicing “sustainable fashion” as a muse & artist for 16 years as an adult,
starting in Boulder throwing fashion, film, music, & art parties with friends & their musician lovers & brothers.
Be a Rose,
Love Your Clothes
founder
muse + artist
healing fashion
weaving dreams into the fabric of reality
creative waste manager
( designer )
storyteller
filmmaker
teacher + adjunct faculty
TAILOR
GARMENT WORKER
knitter + crocheter +needle worker = fiber artist = magic maker
obsessed with Fibershed principles,
zero waste & soil to soil knitwear
( she / her / pumpkin : b.a.rose’s preferred non-gendered term of endearment )
b. a. rose collections have been wildly inaccessible in the past ‘cos the lil punk bumpkin designer artist & muses
love tits hanging out, lotsa sidebook, cock socks, wardrobe malfunctions, raw edges, ugly finishings on beautiful bodies, unwearable art made of semi truck innertube tires, and the like that is “Fashion.”
she made super accessible Fibershed knitwear for a while, got bored,
& realized she needed to focus on :
fashion your reality
be a rose
love your clothes
as your second skin
love within
INTERSECTIONALITY
Inspired by Teju Adisa-Farrar
gender: woman
class: low because i'm a woman & garment worker; but i was raised upper-middle in "bedroom communities" to the richest resort towns in the world; that led to higher depression rates than the national average because we compared ourselves to the richest rich (i helped to conduct a sociological study on this my senior yr of hs)
ethnicity: Papa: Siciliana, Calabrese, Morroccan, Hellene; Mamma: Irish, English, German, Scottish, French, Swiss, Prussian (from most to least).
Actively deconstructing whiteness while acknowledging my privilege as passing & family assimilating into whiteness
sexuality: Alloromantic Allosexual Androsexual Autoromantic Autosexual Demiromantic Demisexual Heteromantic Heterosexual Monosexual
culture: Colorada-Siciliana-Americana matriarch Nana (east coast Italian-American is a whole different animal - just sayin') instilled a strong sense of Italianness into our American identity; always feeling uncomfortable with the WASPy side of the family who were primarily ranchers & farmers; raised in a tiny mountain town, questioning religion & the corporate monster of a ski resort (while enjoying the privileges of living next to a world class resort), raised with the stories of Lovers Leap, a Ute tale, & Navajo cousins; growing up next to an abandoned mining town; with the knowledge that industries fade, men die, & before they do, they leave scars all over mountains in search of riches, when they were blind to the bountiful beauty that surrounded them
skin color: Honey Tan Peaches 'n Cream Praline with Freckles
profession: garment worker turned founder
nationality: American, born 'n bred in Colorada
able-bodied, except when i faint & lose conciousness
Natural Progression of a Bumpkin:
Figure 1.
Catchin' Blue Ribbonz on 4-H Knitting Club Slippers at Yung Hillbilly Age. Photo by Mamma Rose
Figure 2.
Plattform Tennisschuh Skater Phase KNITTIN' BUCKET HATS for Eagle County 4-H Knitting Club. Photo by Mamma Rose
Figure 3.
Wearing Zero Waste Silk Wrap Dress, selfe on Independent Pass, da most narcissistic pass in history (thats a joke but 4 reals none of us are independent of eachother we are all interconnected and united; disconnection is just a state of mind.)
Thank you for Connecting <3
