Welcome to my newly edited and updated blog. I've not been on here in a very long time as I've been busy finishing my degree and sorting myself out. I am now hopefully sorted.
Here is a speedy update of the last 12 months:
July 2011 = Finished working at Sue Wong in LA, where I learnt a lot about the American fashion industry as well as aspects of PR and events.
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| Me with Sue Wong |
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| Me with the SW team |
September = Worked at London Fashion Week for the British Fashion Council in the Operations Team. Which was a great way to see the new and upcoming British designers.
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Aquascutum Menswear A/W 2011
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| Dr Noki Menswear A/W 2011 |
October = Began research on my dissertation entitled; A Study of the Impact of Parachute Production on Britain.
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| A WWII parachute. Courtesy of the Macclesfield Silk Museum |
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| A dress made from up-cycled parachutes. Courtesy of Macclesfield Silk Museum. |
December = Completed my first term's knitted project inspired by Fruit.
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Photoshopped image of my Final Design
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February 2012 = Visited a Technical Textile Factory in Tiverton for my dissertation research, understood how technical textiles are spun and woven in order to create such strong materials. Britain still has the research and technology available to keep the industry here successful.
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| Taken from a Second World War Journal |
April = As part of my degree course, I chose to do a module on Fashion Photography and Styling. I wanted to highlight the issues of present day waste and litter, by having a 'typical holiday' photoshoot set on the Southbank river: Urban Beach
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| The 'beach' scene. |
May = Finished my degree. My final project focused on producing knitted fabrics inspired by origami structures. I wanted to recreate the three-dimensional forms within knitted designs.
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| Inspired by Paper-folding and Origami |
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| A knitted origami structure |
June 2012 = Was chosen to attend New Designers exhibition at the Business Design Centre, with 20 other textile designers from my course.
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| My stand at New Designers |
So those are all the textile/fashion related highlights of the past year. I will repost some more of my work and go into my various projects in more detail. But hopefully this should keep you happy for the time being.
Thank you all for being patient, I am now officially back again for good!
