Sage O’Connor (b. 2002) is an American artist exploring the interconnection of food and fashion. Her practice focuses on research-based, conceptual art direction, fashion and food styling, and set design for fashion photography.
How can the fashion and food industries work in tandem towards a circular system?
MFA Fashion Collection + Communication at Pratt Institute currently. Expanding and exploring on design, garment making, natural dyes, and fashion as a physical art medium.
Sage O’Connor sage_oconnor@mac.com Instagram 00. Musings and Learnings (03.08.2026)
Welcome to my new website!!
This is still a work in progress, and I have so much more in the works
So incredibly excited to be settling in to my new home in a new city
Cannot wait to start designing and making again post trans- atlantic move
Furniture shopping is more difficult than expected
I love my friends and family so much
Feeling absolutely blessed to be alive!
1/6 Trimmed and Glazed Pot2/6 Batch Two into Glaze Fire3/6 Glaze Buckets 4/6 Army of Miscellaneous Pots5/6 More pots... 6/6 Trimming
02.Dinner Parties Throughout Time
2024Photo Series
How are women’s fashion and food intertwined with the concept of the Dinner Party? Exploring women’s place in society through six time periods. A contemporary interpretation of the influence of both fashion and food on female liberation throughout history.
1/6 Medieval Dinner Party2/6 18th Century Dinner Party 3/6 19th Century Dinner Party4/6 1920s Dinner Party5/6 1960s Dinner Party 6/6 21st Century Dinner Party
02.Feast of Equality
2024
Fashion Editorial
Art Director
Fashion editorial collaboration with Grace Mills-Rist. Focus on disturbing imagery, with a man’s head as the main course of a dinner party. Evoking a sense of uneasiness, gender inequality, and class division.
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03.Une Fête Toute Seule
2025
Personal Editorial
Exploring youthful reminiscence, nostalgia, and the skewed female perception around birthdays and ageing.
This report examines the interconnection of the fashion and food industries through the lens of sustainability. Fashion being both a process and a material object means it has a direct link to the environment, similarly to food which uses natural resources. This essay explores the complex interconnection between these two industries through various definitions and perspectives. It follows an account of current trends in fashion PR, local initiatives in Norfolk, UK, and analyzes the possibilities and limitations of various approaches to creating a sustainable future in fashion and food. Research is based on current projects, brands, and programs which all are evaluated in terms of their capacity for future sustainability and consumer limitations.