Anthony Browning - The Ambiguity Collection

“I have always loved fashion and I knew I wanted to create clothes, but I was never good at creating physical garments. This made me frustrated and it was a constant reminder that anytime I “messed up” I was wasting not only time but wasting so much fabric in the process. During the 2020 lockdown, like many, I wanted to keep myself busy and start a new project of some sort. So I decided to get back into creating garments, but before I did I wanted to make sure I learned everything about sewing and pattern making before I went full deep into creating physical garments. I headed over to YouTube to look for tutorials and discovered videos of users using the computer software CLO3D. I was immediately intrigued by how you could create clothes so lifelike all on a computer and that there was a whole world for 3D digital clothes!

 Now I'm 10 months into creating garments and I love it with a passion. I'm not wasting any more time cutting patterns out and physically sewing them by hand. No more being wasteful, this is more sustainable and I am able to finally express my creativity exactly how I vision it!

 The name of the collection for Rhea Wear is called Ambiguity. Inspired by ravewear and clubwear. I love the movie Party Monster and I was heavily influenced by the costumes they would wear. For me I wanted to create a collection of pieces I saw myself wearing as a queer black male in the club or rave scene. This collection was fun to create and let my imagination run wild. It has all my favorite types of garments starting from a leather trench jacket, transparent metal top & trousers all the way to a divine green tulip-looking ball gown.”

- Anthony Browning - October 2021