About Me
Hi, I’m Alfie Stevens, a Fashion Textiles graduate from UCA.
Alfie Stevens is a Fashion Textiles designer, specialising in Menswear. His application of printwork within a fashion context has earned him recognition from Kornit Digital and Graduate Fashion Week, being selected as a competition winner to travel to Italy and see his work be printed, as well as winning Gold at the Kornit x Graduate Fashion Week Catwalk.
A consistent theme throughout my work is exploring widely understood concepts, and creating a unique narrative by applying my own experiences. I enjoy using an amalgamation of visual research and bold colours, to create contemporary repeat and placement prints. By understanding garment construction, I am able to apply my printwork creatively within a fashion context.
INSPIRATION
Football has been a constant throughout my life, whether that be playing, coaching or watching:
Celebrating football through print is what inspired my collection. I wanted to explore my personal memories and connections within football throughout my life. I used old photos I had from playing and watching football as a foundation to build my imagery and narrative from. I also find it interesting that people around the world can watch the same games, experience the same feelings and emotions on a matchday, but create their own individual memories from it.
I collated imagery and objects associated with football using them to create a body of primary visual research and drawings. I visited places where I engage with the sport, including the local pitch where I play 5-a-side every week. Alongside this, I visited stadiums of professional teams to gain more generalised imagery to build my print designs from.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DETAIL
‘Unlucky for some’
To create a cohesive collection and utilising the concept of team numbers, I selected ‘13’ as a constant motif across each outfit. The number 13 has a personal connection to me, as it was the number I had on the back of my shirt when playing football as a kid. It’s also an instantly recognisable number due to its superstitious connotations as being ‘unlucky for some’. I included the motifs within prints as both placements and repeats, experimenting with scale and composition. On the hoodie I created a repeating element using screen printing with puff binder to add texture and depth. I also appliqued number patches onto the back using zig-zag stitching, inspired by old football shirts. This process was also applied to the front and back of the shorts to experiment with the tradition of numbers on football sportswear.
“Be you. You’ll be fine.” - Mac Miller
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