the tender side of queerness

I'm raising money to fund my BA graduate collection, which is a celebration of my queer community and heritage. For me, this collection is a small way to open the conversation around what it means to be queer and to show the tender side to fight stereotypes. 

My name is Charles Francis Hemsley and I am in my final year fashion student at Kingston School of Art. 

This project is exciting in many ways. However, the main focus is to inspire and uplift queer people, and so I have actively been involving as many queer people to collaborate on this collection as possible. I want this collection to be a queer love letter.

Where will the money go?

The money raised from this website will go toward shooting my lookbook / promotional package. These will highlight queer models wearing clothes designed with queer people, queer history and the future of queer dress in mind. 

Costs: 

• Studio for shoot costs around £350. 
• Professional model cost £300. 
• photographer cost £250. 
• £100 for transport and food for shoot for people working on it. 

Rewards

• Anyone who kindly donates will get a copy of my lookbook as a thank you, to see where your generous contribution has gone.  

Find us here

Instagram- @charlesfrancishemsley or https://www.instagram.com/charlesfrancishemsley/

Help us succeed!

You don't need to give money to help this project succeed! Please share this project with anyone you think would support it – on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, by email, telephone, in a chat over the fence or on your blog. Share it with everyone you know as we think it's a great idea, and the more people who know about it, the more likely it will be to make this work out brilliantly 

And we know we said you don't need to give money to help this project, but would be a massive support if you did! Please sponsor the tender side of queerness project and help make this happen.