Wool Skirts

Wool Skirts — SUDESTADA, New York
October 16, 2025 — March 15, 2026

SKARULE participated in Wool Skirts, an exhibition presented by SUDESTADA in New York, exploring the legacy and future potential of a remarkable archive of 632 wool skirts collected over three generations.

The collection was originally assembled by Audrey Huset, who spent much of her life gathering secondhand wool skirts and preserving them for future generations. After her passing, the skirts were organized and carefully catalogued by her family. Today the archive, spanning garments from the 1940s to the 1990s, has found a new home in Brooklyn, where artist Mae Colburn continues to research and activate the collection.

The exhibition asked a simple yet powerful question: What do we do with 632 wool skirts?

After ten months of research, Wool Skirts presented a selection from the archive alongside reinterpretations by twenty-one international artists and designers. Each participant worked with a skirt from the collection, transforming it through their own creative language — as a garment, sculpture, performance piece, or experimental fashion object.

For SKARULE, the project resonated deeply with the brand’s ongoing exploration of craft, material memory, and circular approaches to fashion. By reimagining a wool skirt from the archive, the work became part of a broader dialogue about sustainability, authorship, and the evolving life of garments across generations.

The exhibition marked the first public presentation of Audrey Huset’s collection and the beginning of its gradual dispersal into the hands of a new generation.

Participating artists and designers included Alexandra Barlow, Alana Burns, Athena Kokoronis, Camila Banzo, Carla Duarte, Emma Larimer, Fanny Allié, Jason Rosenberg, Jessi Highet, Kisook Suh, Lorenza Lattanzi, Mariah Smith, Maxine Midtbo, Megumi Shauna Arai, Rachel Meade Smith, Ragna Frodadottir, Sabine Skarule, Sam Bennett, Sarah Nsikak, Sol Pardo, and Tajah Ellis.