Deep in the mud lie the stories of peoples of (pre)history who left no trace. Each Yashka Moore dig contains the objects exhumed from the ground of lost histories and the stories pieced together from their remains. In doing so, we find new ways of living now.

Dig 001 is currently underway.

Yashka, the designer of the eponymous label, is informed by her research on the applications of embodied cognition for design practice. She has lectured on this thinking at the Wellcome Collection Museum, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival and Central Saint Martins. 

Exhibitions include the ‘Best of British’ design in Japan at the British Ambassador’s residence in Tokyo with the UKTI  in 2017, Pitti Uomo MAKE, Florence (2016); Thomas Erber's Cabinet de Curiosities & the Avant/Garde Diaries Project Space, New York (2013) and at MoMA Tbilisi in 2018. Her designs have been worn by people including Rebecca Hall & Leonard Cohen, and stocked internationally.

As a librettist, Yashka’s songs have been performed at venues including Wigmore Hall. Genizah, her chamber opera about religious conversion and tattoos, premiered at Milton Court Studio Theatre in July 2019 in association with the Guildhall School for Music & Drama and the Royal Opera House, with music by Richard Melkonian. 

Listen to the Philosophy Forum’s Podcast Do Clothes Maketh the Human here.