BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Surface Textiles
A Surface Textiles for Fashion student specializing in embroidery and embellishment. âMedicate Meâ is a high-end ready to wear womenswear collection, designed with the intention of retailing during Spring/Summer 2014. This collection demonstrates the collision of contemporary and traditional approaches to medicine, through the exploration of Native American culture and advances in scientific medicine.It strives to encourage the viewer to evaluate their own thoughts and approaches to scientific medicine, and how media coverage of its successes and failures has shaped these opinions. This also encourages a curiosity into the alternatives; thus this collection explores a differing approach, in particular the Navajo and Siouxâs belief in medicine ceremonies, amulets and symbolic belief in healing.To achieve this the collection draws upon a textile tradition, and transforms it to demonstrate a clinical aesthetic which will appeal to the contemporary consumer. Exploration of new materials has allowed for highly creative and innovative textile development through embroidery processes, that reflect on traditional craftsmanship, whilst evoking a clinical and medicinal aesthetic. This creates a collection that will look modern, clean yet be engulfed in embellishment created from plastics. Education London College of Fashion Fashion Design Technology:Surface Textiles (2010-2013) Manchester School of Art Foundation Diploma in Art and Design: Distinction (2009-2010) Skills Adobe Photoshop,Illustrator and Indesign programmes Illustration specializing in hand rendered work Hand Embroidery and embellishment Specialized Embroidery equipment: CAD embroidery using Wilcom software Specialized Embroidery equipment: craft machines including: irish/cornely/babylock/tanaka Basic knowledge of flat pattern cutting and grading for womenswear Screen Printing Digital Printing Industry Experience Alexander McQueen April-July 2012,October 2012 Embroidery Intern Jane Bowler, September 2012 Studio Intern Emilio de la Morena, October 2011-January 2012 (part time) Studio/Textiles Intern Markus Lupfer, May-July 2011(part time) Studio Intern Beyond Retro,February-April 2011 (part time) Print and Textile Archive Intern