Non-profit art collective Dirty Spread presents a fashion show of five collections by emerging Bristol based artists and designers. They will be accompanied by sets from Queer DJ's, Bendy Wendy and Molly Mogul.

The respective collections have been made utilising various recycled garments and materials provided by the collective members. The runway event will showcase Laurie Cousins, duo's 'Elot and Sorro' and 'Parv and Ruth', Velvet Butler Carroll and Dirty Spread member, George Avill.

Laurie Cousins likes to work in a range of different mediums to keep him engaged and they all feed into each other. Collaboration is very important to him. Illustration, colour and a DIY messy mindset are the most consistent things about the clothes that Laurie makes. Previous examples of his garments can be seen proudly presented at every Crotch event by resident DJ's and on Bristol based performers such as Elektra Duboir and Try Me.

Elot is a multidisciplinary maker of things. He is a lover of bright colours, fluffy things and anything childish. His work is an escape from the serious and grey adult world into something much more exciting, colourful and full of life. Elot and Soro A.K.A MELTING DISCO! are a duo who are good at making stuff. They like to bring fun and chaos to a world which is grey and lifeless. Their work will consist of fun and childlike accessories with a sense of unadulterated fun.

Parv and Ruth are photographers by day and stylists by night. They love clothes and putting them together in harmony. They just graduated from UWE and are currently figuring out what on earth to do tomorrow. #truthgame is the name they have given to the collaboration of their two minds, which blend together so seamlessly.

Velvet/Rudi is a Drag King and interdisciplinary artist discussing inclusivity, queerness and nature through their work. Most recently their textiles practice has focused on the creation of garments from scrap fabrics and common weeds, creating a link between the phenomenal qualities of nature and that of a queer body. ⁠Velvet's menswear pieces are influenced by traditional old Hollywood sillouetes and the costuming of 60's/70's icons Marc bolan and David Bowie.

George Avill's work utilises clothes that since beginning HRT no longer fit them; this collection is both a love letter to their previous form and the person they are becoming. The garments highlight the acceptance they had of their sexuality through beginning to take testosterone, the lines uses comedy and elaborate 'femininity' to display George's new confidence in exploration of gender as a product of being on hormones for almost one year. Alike their performance pieces and installations, the was also created out of anger for the treatment of transgender and gender-diverse people. The audience is supposed to feel like George is holding up a mirror to them or like when you accidentally make eye contact with someone at the urinal.

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