STATEMENT OF INTENT:
A womenswear collection born out of the fascination I have with everyday objects that surround us all in our home environment, I admire the hidden craftsmanship and subtle beauty found within these mundane objects that circle our daily living.
My inspiration for this collection is derived from my own room and the comfortable attachment I have for the objects I use within it daily. I am interested in how people connect and adapt to their own habitat making it their own, making do, covering up what they don’t like to create a very personal surrounding, which is an extension of themselves.
This collection merges the two together, essentially creating moulds of my room and transforming them into wearable clothes. It is about someone loving the objects and subtle details of their environment so much that they literally become at one with each other; like sitting in a favourite chair with the comforting familiar texture of the upholstery and inner soft foam padding which brings contentment to the body and mind as they relax.
I intend to achieve this with a novel approach to pattern cutting, creating covers from my chair and sofa, blending innovative pattern cutting and upholstery techniques. Creating moulds of different furniture found in my room and using these pieces to drape on the body, like painting, to create fluid abstract silhouettes. I have also created new textures by drawing out the different qualities and details found in the furniture. Solid wood of a fold- out bed becomes soft and flexible; it flows like the movement of a bamboo mat.
The ease of movement a bamboo table mat makes when it’s unrolled, and the fluid shapes and structures it forms are things I want to capture. Almost as though the different elements and details of the room are entwining into one. Creating wearable covers for the body.
I will be using random fabrics found in the room such as curtain, carpet, upholstery fabric and wood, to mimic the fluid elegance and grace I see within my home environment, I will augment with luxurious fabrics that shimmer in the light, in nude, rich warm colours with flashes of antique gold tones found in the grains of wood, with subtle changes of texture throughout.
I would like for this collection to be abstract yet classic, covering the body from head to toe, still looking elegant, in the same way these mundane objects sit there subtly having hidden beauties within them.
A womenswear collection born out of the fascination I have with everyday objects that surround us all in our home environment, I admire the hidden craftsmanship and subtle beauty found within these mundane objects that circle our daily living.
My inspiration for this collection is derived from my own room and the comfortable attachment I have for the objects I use within it daily. I am interested in how people connect and adapt to their own habitat making it their own, making do, covering up what they don’t like to create a very personal surrounding, which is an extension of themselves.
This collection merges the two together, essentially creating moulds of my room and transforming them into wearable clothes. It is about someone loving the objects and subtle details of their environment so much that they literally become at one with each other; like sitting in a favourite chair with the comforting familiar texture of the upholstery and inner soft foam padding which brings contentment to the body and mind as they relax.
I intend to achieve this with a novel approach to pattern cutting, creating covers from my chair and sofa, blending innovative pattern cutting and upholstery techniques. Creating moulds of different furniture found in my room and using these pieces to drape on the body, like painting, to create fluid abstract silhouettes. I have also created new textures by drawing out the different qualities and details found in the furniture. Solid wood of a fold- out bed becomes soft and flexible; it flows like the movement of a bamboo mat.
The ease of movement a bamboo table mat makes when it’s unrolled, and the fluid shapes and structures it forms are things I want to capture. Almost as though the different elements and details of the room are entwining into one. Creating wearable covers for the body.
I will be using random fabrics found in the room such as curtain, carpet, upholstery fabric and wood, to mimic the fluid elegance and grace I see within my home environment, I will augment with luxurious fabrics that shimmer in the light, in nude, rich warm colours with flashes of antique gold tones found in the grains of wood, with subtle changes of texture throughout.
I would like for this collection to be abstract yet classic, covering the body from head to toe, still looking elegant, in the same way these mundane objects sit there subtly having hidden beauties within them.