FdA Fashion Design Technology (Designer Pattern Cutter)
Tomoko Onimaru is attending London College of Fashion, FdA Fashion Design Technology, Design Pattern Cutter, Year 2. Born in Japan in 1988, she completed her BA Space Production Design, Fashion Design Course in Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2011. During FdA 1st year at LCF, she studied Surface Textile in Central Saint Martins, Short course, Textile Workshop. Tomoko Onimaru is a Womenswear Designer good at clean cutting, over box shaped silhouette and combing different texture of fabrics. Her signatures of design are elegant, clean, cool and functional detail. As well as she is central to create mood of elegance and cleanness for independent women, she puts importance on the detail function especially in term of the inside pocket so that people's life can be more comfortable and active without having bag. Also it is enable to protect your important stuffs inside of the garment. That's because she thinks that fashion should not restrict human body in daily life and during a travel. For the AW13 capsule collection named 'Clean Freak', she took inspiration from the nurse costume in 1960. She applied high neck collar, double layered collar, square shaped armhole and complicated belt line into her collection from the distinguishing old nurse costume using the combination of leather, silk and wool fabric. In her graduation work in Japan, she designed down jackets combined with biker jackets to create a new type of winter outwear which is light weight, easy to move, functional, and sophisticated. Now, she is working on SS14 inspired from the Balinese historical costume and lace garments that is wore in their daily life. This collection's concept is 'Luxury as comfortable'. She is trying to design luxury garments which is easy to wear in very hot environment such as resort place using cotton, lace and leather. Contact: onimaru.tom@gmail.com Mobile: +44(0)7411913723 FdA Fashion Design Technology, Design Pattern Cutter