Decommissioning military garments is the target and an allegory for the borders I want to be demilitarised. This dis-armed collection is made up of up-cycled military garments and deadstock fabrics. This presented me with an alternative approach to the design and making process: the destruction, the unravelling, the cutting open, the slashing and the extending/inverting of volume are key to the design aesthetics. The silhouettes developed from various interpretations of “the space (negative) between two opponents in combat”. Filling this negative space creates a positive one. This represents to fill gaps and is a metaphor for closing the socio/political and cultural gaps between people; as well as turning the existing military garments into outright unmilitary ones, both in meaning and in function. The outcome is subverting the viewer by referencing military garments for an opposite and new purpose and eliminating their negative connotations to portray my views on a borderless world.