Fashion Designer
Fashion Designer
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Keepsake
A designer remakes the clothes of the dead into couture. A grieving mother's private keepsake becomes A's breakout show. To keep the career, A must keep selling a daughter she swore to protect.
A reconstructs the clothing of the dead into new garments.
The work is real.
The studio is broke.
A gets one slot at a major show and no centerpiece.
B comes to the studio.
B's daughter is dead.
B brings the daughter's whole wardrobe.
B wants one wearable keepsake, private, never shown, never sold.
A makes it.
It is the best thing A has ever made.
The show is in a week.
A has nothing else strong enough.
A puts the keepsake on the runway.
The room stands.
A buyer, C, wants a full line and a fast answer.
A says yes.
A calls the design her own.
B sees the photo online.
B calls.
A lets it ring.
A could credit B and lose the deal.
A could stop.
A does neither.
A cuts the line from the daughter's patterns and sells the grief by the piece.
Each new garment needs another borrowed loss, so A starts courting fresh mourners for their closets.
B threatens to speak.
A pays B to stay quiet, then cuts B off.
The deal closes.
A stands in the new showroom, dressed plainly, surrounded by the dead, applauded, and feels nothing.
The gift that made the work true is gone, traded for the room.