Tinsel Capsule Collection x Nitty Gritty
For this collaboration with Nitty Gritty, I wanted to explore what happens when overlooked garments are given the time, care, and imagination they were once denied. Every piece in this project began as something incomplete: unsold trousers left in storage, and a damaged vintage dress that could no longer be worn in its original form.
The trousers became the starting point for a series of knitted sweaters — rebuilt, reshaped, and given new structure through my hands. What was once considered finished found a second life through reconstruction and craft.
The vintage dress carried a quiet beauty, even in its brokenness. When I deconstructed it, I realised it held more possibilities than one single garment could contain. By opening it up, it could be shared — not kept as one object for one person, but allowed to spread out into many pieces, touching many people.
It became a top, a skirt, and other smaller fragments: handcrafted ornaments, jewelries and scarf details meant to be attached to sweaters, worn on the body, or used to decorate the home. In this way, the dress continues to exist — not as a singular item, but as a thread connecting everyone who carries a part of it.
This project is about repair as creation, about extending the life of materials, and about finding joy in making things whole again — in new forms, and in new hands.
I’m happy to share this process with you, and hope you like it as much as I do. Please join me for the Tinsel Trunk Show at Nitty Gritty this Saturday, the 13th, to see the whole collection. I will be in the store all day accessories you up!
Merry Christmas,
Maja
I owe all my thanks for helping me out to:
Nitty Gritty for trusting the process and giving me material, Albin Sjödin for producing the videos and photos, Nicole Sabouné my forever muse, model and inspiration, Mira Andersson for hair and makeup, Josefine and Stockholms Stadsmission for saving the dress and Agga Anne Mette Stage for the flyers.
Thank you all!