December 2025 Knitwear Styling Challenge
WEAVE ME WHERE I’M FROM
A two-look knitwear story shot on iPhone, exploring identity as something handmade — woven, unravelled and carried across cultures. Shot entirely on iPhone, the story follows an Afro-Andalusian woman whose heritage spans Cádiz and the African coastline. Through movement, texture and raw intimacy, we reinterpret knitwear with a narrative grounded in craft, ancestry and modern identity. Photo, Creative Direction & Styling - Pili Mateos, Photo - Isaac Tapiki, MUA - Bibi, Model - Olive Obazee - photographed in London outside the Tate Modern wearing @mallohalloh & @demainretro
For the Holiday Knitwear Styling Challenge, Ai Komoto presents self-made knits and photography, paired with bright orange trousers also crafted by the designer. The model, Antoine Paris—a painter—appears alongside his own artworks, wearing his personal navy pants in several shots. Komoto notes that creating and photographing the pieces personally was a meaningful and energizing experience.
MERDE contributor Pierre Leba styles the Copenhagen-based knitwear brand brand ANNARR, with his classic Carhartt jeans.
New York–based designer Everett Schutt submits a series of knit pieces created on a Stoll CMS 530 flat-knitting machine, coded and processed through a dedicated PC. Inspired by Divine, the designs merge precision engineering with camp sensibility. Each pattern is zero-waste cut and sew—every offcut is repurposed and stuffed between the garments’ double layers, echoing the sculptural padding traditions of drag performance.
All yarns used were donated, ranging from cashmere and merino to silk and cotton blends. Everett produced and styled the accompanying shoot personally, captured on an iPhone 14 Pro, with additional process imagery available on Instagram at @pauralalmer.
Kyle Heurta styles her sister Bianca Huerta in a Rick Owens total knit look.
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