About Me
Hi! I am Aiden a NTU Fashion Knitwear student and GFW awards winner.
My design identity is fun, experimental and creative, I enjoy creating strong concepts from conceptual ideas such as in my honours project which looked into fashion’s relationship with smoking. I love materiality, exploring with new yarns and building industry briefs, which lead to my work being shown at Spin Expo in Shanghai this SS24 exhibition.
I began my degree studying Textiles Design so I thrive in the process of developing fabric, especially exploring textures and combining these to further enhance their material/yarn qualities. My time at university has taught me to be a conscious designer, to think of the wider world and the implications my practice has on not only the environment but people as well. I now see myself as a true Knitwear Designer as I love the technical side of this discipline and enjoy finding creative approaches to zero-waste manufacturing.
INSPIRATION
Is smoking cool? ‘Behind the smoke: Fashion’s dirtiest habit’ exposes negative impacts of smoking.
Negative impacts of smoking are exaggerated through fabrication and silhouette that appear to engulf the wearer, as the smoking habit does. An exploration of the amassing and staining that occurs within your body when you take up fashion’s coolest habit is glamorised, with inspiration from the 1990’s when heroin-chic was at its height. The use of bold colours, inspired by the effects of nicotine, combined with decaying, mutated knits emphasise this.
Even though smoking is so deeply rooted in glamour the aftermath can be devastating.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Concept Moodboard
Hand Dye Developments
Stoll Sampling
Toilé Development
Zero-Waste Manufacture
Collection Samples
Collection Samples
Collection Range Plan
Collection Line-up
DETAIL
A powerful visual stand against harming our health for the sake of looking cool
Fine gauge knits, hand dying and fluffy textures capture the glamorous relationship between fashion and smoking, shedding a new light by contrasting with themes of decay, mutations and staining. All outfits within the collection comprise of glamorous pieces that are layered over with dramatic, asymmetric and encapsulating silhouettes creating a powerfully visual stand against harming our health for the sake of looking cool. This collection finds a new way for women to explore femininity and rebellion within the fashion space. The outcomes are truly intended for catwalk, but the details within them create unique storytelling moments.
“It's not so much that smoking is cool; it's the iconography it represents” - Weissburg, 2018
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