Sara Thorn and Bruce Slorach are two of Australia's most innovative and successful textile and clothing designer. They established the Abyss studio in 1983 designing and selling a unique range of clothing from their own retail outlet in Melbourne. In 1992 they closed the retail outlet and started a new label called funkessentials taking their designs in a more commercial direction. They have continued to design their own advertising material using funky cartoon imagery with quirky messages that mixes images from technology, TV and comic culture with classic clothing traditions reworking them into an eclectic whole with a very cool hip edge, appealing to the hip hop and rock and roll crowd.

Catalogue, 'funkessentials Summer 93/94', paper, funkessentials, Australia, 1993.
25 page colour photocopied catalogue stapled at top right corner, cover features smoking clown face surrounded with the text 'FUNKESSENTIALS/COMENGETIT!' on a blue and violet striped ground, 'summer/93/94' in white underneath. Contains sketches of mens and womens clothing with colour photocopies of colourways.

Designed: Thorn, Sara; Melbourne, Victoria

Designed: Slorach, Bruce; Melbourne, Victoria

Made: funkessentials; Melbourne, Victoria; 1993


Used: funkessentials; Melbourne, Victoria

95/161/7

295 mm

210 mm