It is not that Gillian James is indifferent to the fact that ready-made women’s attire now occupies its own fair share of both the global and local markets. That, however, is nowhere near sufficient to shake her faith in the role that raw fabric has played in the creation of clothing that is fitted and sewn to the taste and desire of the individual. Gillian wants to keep the passion for huge swathes of raw fabric alive. Feeling and fussing with, and for one peculiar reason or another, ruling out or ruling in a particular piece of fabric, then finally, through a process that creates a “hard-to-describe” intimacy between the female and the fabric, arriving at a choice, is, she says, a deeply satisfying experience.
