Miska Kettu

In a future where bees have vanished, the Earth faces a crisis. With ecosystemsunbalanced and agriculture collapsing, humanity must rebuild itself, mirroring bee hives,where survival depends on collective function. In Busy Bees, garments become tools, each piece reflecting a societal role within animagined post-bee city, inspired by the jobs within the beehive—guards, foragers, nurses,cleaners, etc. Miska Kettu’s MA thesis collection explores how fashion communicatespurpose and necessity, and also reinterprets the essence of cooperation and adaptation,emphasising the connection between humans and the essential role of every individual inshaping the future. "For the creative process, I imagined modern uniforms for everyday workers inthis imagined world. I wanted to create characters that we see in our everydaylife. Their garments reflect their roles and importance within the ecosystem theylive in. But what is workwear in 2025? Especially in a context where we seetechnology and machines taking work and slowly replacing us. For me,workwear can be summarised by protective and functional garments." In the collection, classic workwear elements were combined with a twist. Fashion is aboutstorytelling, and this collection tells its own story. Essential techniques for this collection are artisanal leather work and jacquard-weaving,elevating workwear and challenging the traditional hierarchies of material use. Instead oftreating workwear as disposable, the collection sculpts it with intention, embedding labourwith beauty and strength. "Working with this collection has been a long road, a lot of mistakes anderrors, but now it sees the daylight. The most rewarding thing has been theleather work. It is an unforgivable material to work with, where you truly musttake time & precision: glue, topstitch, glue, topstitch, glue, topstitch. But as theysay, Rome wasn’t built in a day."