About Me
I’m Augustine, Kingston fashion graduate specialising in print design.
Augustine is a fashion and fine arts creative who specialises in print. Her love of bold and politically expressive prints has lead her research during her degree. The first garment of Augustine's collection was featured in GFW: Talent Of Tomorrow photoshoot.
Studying fashion design has been a fantastic way for me to process my creative and political ideas. Using print design as an expression for my beliefs and moral positions, I develop second-hand clothes into garments giving them an inspiring new life. My research explores historical events and current affairs. I work from collage to lino print and in-between. I embody sentiments of British working life, protest and solidarity throughout my print and garments.
INSPIRATION
My love for political art started at college and looking at graffiti.
I am inspired by traditional slogans, emblems, crests and phrases: rewording and screen printing them to question the integrity of our current establishments as a symbol of "Britishness", and holding a 14-year-old Tory tenure to account. These political themes are recurring sentiments in contemporary graffiti. As citizens, we navigate a tumultuous time in British poilitics and my work represents a feeling of distinct and profound change in young people's political and ideological beliefs.
Print is imperative to "political optics" and message sending; therefore I deploy it liberally in meaning and in fabrication. Using only second-hand garments, I have given new meaning to the traditional "Britishness" in order to reclaim patriotism from right-wing scaremongers, giving a new meaning: of unprejudiced inclusivity and solidarity, curating a look of 'diverse harmony' that exists within our union today.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
'State Of Our Union' FMP- mood board
'State Of Our Union' FMP- fabric and colour board
'State Of Our Union' FMP- silhouette board
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 1 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 1 creative flat
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 2 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 2 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 2 creative flat
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 3 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 3 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 4 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 4 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 4 creative flat
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 5 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 5 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 5 creative flat
'State Of Our Union' FMP- look 6 development
'State Of Our Union' FMP- print development board
'State Of Our Union' FMP- final line up
DETAIL
I use traditional Trade Union slogans and songs to promote a sense of unity among ALL workers.
Using historical archives, current news and media influences, I have designed and applied prints that represent every nation within the British Isles. A Scottish land poem, “The Goose and the Common", featured in look one; a reworded government crest, protests the status-quo in look two. Look three represents my love of graffiti, using a slogan promoted in British media in the 70s to try and hinder graffers influence in society. The British pound features in look four, illustrating that the workers are the unifying force of our nation not the crown. Look five, represents bankers and bosses as the real enemy, not whoever the right wing are framing to scapegoat their own failures. Finally, quotes from the writer, Thomas Paine encompass my own moral code and beliefs in look six.
“We are in a class struggle now! Stand up and fight with us or get out of the way” - Mick Lynch ‘We demand better'
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