Pamela Reed and Mathew Radar II

 

Look at the fun that Pamela Reed and Mathew Radar have had making these animated avatars for this knitwear promotion.

Pamela Reed and Mathew Radar I

  

 

Pamela Reed and Mathew Radar pack their collaborative work with fun, style, creative zeal and technical know how, their fashion presentation, for it is more than photography, is exploding with ideas and experimentation.

Jane Bowler

 

 

"My collection is derived from a fusion of traditional Japanese straw raincoats and the iconic British Mackintosh. I have combined stitchless heat forming techniques and ultra-sonic welding of recycled plastics. Through sumptuous colour, lustrous gloss and a harmonious mix of synthetic and natural fibres I am pushing the boundaries of rainwear".
Jane Bowler speaking of her RCA graduation collection.
Jane Bower's work has continued to feature innovative  use of  recycled plastics; knitted, molded and cut, as well as in combination with more traditional fabrics. Her work manages to be both futuristic and playfully retro.
Below: Rita Ora wearing Janes dress at T in the Park.

Poly Boreland

 

Polly Boreland is an award winning Australian photographer, much sought after for her portraits and styling, used lycra and tights to create this playful and very disturbing series called 'smudge'.
What I find interesting about this work is its play, its experimentation and creativity and the way Polly contorts the identity of her subjects through stretching the fabric capsule of the body leotard, stuffing it or painting onto it. It is this experimentation that can lead to new ways of looking at fabric, at silhouette and fundamentally at ideas of identity and how we express them.

Dahea Sun

Dahea Sun is a textile designer who works at the cutting edge of fabric technology. In collaboration with fashion designer Gayeon Lee she has produced a range of silk clothing that responds to the acidity in rain water.
Using water-soluble pigments, anthocyanins found in red cabbages, egg plant and blackberries Dahea Sun was able to create her "Rain Palette" to help people visualize air quality at a glance. Such textile technology might at least make a wet Scottish summer a little more interesting and would help engage people in collecting data and being aware of their environment. (thank you)

Jose Hendro

Made from bark cloth, Jose Hendro's 'Resonance collection' is sculptural and dynamic, with styling and silhouette that echo Japanese cutting and styling techniques. (images)

"My dream is to make bark cloth work alongside mainstream fabrics." Bark Cloth is a centuries old technique, one that is recognised by UNESCO as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity. It is considered the oldest man made fabric and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Material in 2005," Jose Hendro.

Lucie Halley

 

 

 

Lucie Halley has just graduated from Kingston University Fashion BA and these are are few examples from her graduate collection 'Becalmed Element' inspired by features taken from swimming costumes. Lucie's work has a theatricality about it, presenting a facade of hand dyed prints and clean cut silhouettes, but always having a secret, a revealing exposure of flesh or pattern.

Nui Project

 

 

 

The 'Nui Project'.
To see one style of garment, a standard white shirt, hand embellished in so many tranformative ways, must be an inspiration to any fashion /textile designer.
Some of the artists involved in this project in Japan stitch the garments to such an extent that they are sculpted and contorted, others transform the fabric structure and for others the results can be seen as more of an embellishment or surface pattern. For more information please see here and here.