Dark grey bag

Dark grey bag by designer Tereza Chytilová from the Middle Class Homeless collection.

Because of the housing crisis, young people from the middle class lack the permanent housing that generations before them owned. For these modern urban nomads, I am therefore designing a collection of “bags” that will help them relocate and become their imaginary snail shell. I use embroidery to give a rectangle of fabric the volume that was used in folk culture to carry things, but also strength in the joints. Embroidery, which here ironically critiques rental housing, is not a decoration but a functional structural element and a carrier of meaning. The result is four products: a shopping bag, a raincoat, an apron and a loom. All can be easily packed into a backpack or unfolded for storage.