ISSUES OF THE Woven Words Collective

The Hemline is not a fashion platform.
It’s a soft document of presence.
Of how we survive, soften, and show up.
Of how we wear grief and joy and refusal and return.

Here, we ask:
What do you reach for when you want to feel whole again?
What do you carry in your pocket that no one sees?
What does care look like on your body?

We do not archive aesthetics.
We archive the self.

This is for Gen Z and Millennials.
For the ones who don’t need to be styled to be seen.
For the ones who walk quietly, but leave everything trembling.

The Hemline is worn with care.
And built to hold us.

  • This issue explores how personal identity—shaped by culture, background, and experiences—affects fashion choices and self-expression: HERE

  • Culture, clothing, and care as resistance.
    Includes mini profiles of people whose style holds stories.
    Objects passed down. Textiles as language.
    Why softness can be political. Why fashion is never just surface.

  • Letters that were never sent.

    A collection of letters—to former selves, to mothers, to lovers, to strangers.
    Raw, incomplete, lyrical.
    This would be her most vulnerable work—but still controlled, deliberate, and sacred.

    Readers would be invited to write their own and submit them.
    The book would live partially in print and partially in an ever-growing private archive online.

  • A collection of stories, fragments, and field notes on sacred intimacy.

    • Love that does not consume

    • Lovers who touch without naming

    • Boundaries that don’t feel like fences

    • The difference between being chosen and being claimed

    • Loving and still being alone (by choice)

  • Women are invited to submit:

    • “The first time I knew I wasn’t safe”

    • “The moment I said no and meant it”

    • “What my grandmother taught me”

    • “How I survive tenderness”

    This could be anonymous or named. Each story becomes a tile in a digital wall.