About Me
Hi! I am Amelia, a Womenswear Designer passionate about textiles
My areas of expertise are Womenswear with a strong focus on Knitwear and Printed textiles.
I love to draw on references from alternative areas of Design such as Sculpture, Fine Art, Architecture, and furniture, to inform my fashion practice and provide an innovative, unusual approach.
INSPIRATION
My Collection incapsulates family, authenticity and Fine Art.
Referencing my Grandad as central inspiration, through his love of Modern Art. Particularly artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, who are integral in my design aesthetic and colour references. Layering on top of this artistic direction, are the memories and artefacts of his time spent in the RAF.
Stories and heirlooms my Grandad shared with me, became central source pieces. Ergonomic shapes used by Modernist artists, together with authentic RAF plane constructions, informed the fabrications, silhouettes and textile patterns. I developed hand painted digital prints, needle felting, linear ribs and ergonomic plaited cables.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Collection concept board
Colour, Fabric and Surface Textile story
Hand Painted, Digitised surface prints
Look 1: Knit Development
Look 4: Printed gather dress spec page
Look 6: Needle felting tabard development
Collection Lineup
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DETAIL
Up-cycled Military Surplus Tents
With sustainability in mind, I went through my grandads belongings, and sourced vintage military surplus tents to up-cycle and repurpose into garments and accessories. I kept the original features of the tents, such as the seams and metal hardware, as an echo of my grandfather’s life.
Celebrating textile techniques within my pieces, creates a greater depth, tying the collection together with an artistic thread.
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