About Me
A fashion design graduate from CSVPA
Charlotte is a designer with an interest in sustainable fashion representing contemporary artisan. Specialising in the use of embroidery and silhouettes to convey story telling and play on british heritage.
After studying Fine art, Textiles and a BA in fashion design I have developed a style of embroidery that mirrors my illustration through mark making and line. I have always been inspired by history and so creating a final collection which explores nostalgia whilst working in tandem with contemporary silhouettes and working sustainably was an natural progression.
INSPIRATION
My initial inspiration started with my own WW2 family archive
A small token of love, embroidered with a modest poppy and cornflower, an ear of corn, positioned around the words ‘To my Dear Wife’, was the starting point for both my dissertation and final collection ‘A Stitch in – Time – Waits for No Man’. A redundant practice in the face of modern industrial production and historically constructed as a tool of heteronormative monitoring, this piece of cloth has resonance today, as fashion questions our understanding of gender and also the speed of the world around us
My final collection questions of the aesthetics of menswear, and craft ability to capturing of time. The fabrics all salvaged from duvet covers, pillowcases and curtains, take inspiration from the soldiers’ ingenuity, and challenge the extractive and depleting consequences of fast fashion. These materials, that have already had a life in a home, are reimagined through the slow application of needle work. While the intricate construction folds a moment of masculinity from the past into the present.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Image from final collection of embroidery.
love and sentiment research page
The camp shows and contemporary references
Colour story of the collection
fabrics, salvaged from second hand charity shops
initial design sketches
hand embroidery samples
Look one design development
detail image of hand embroidery
Look three design development
illustration
Look five design development
Detail hand embroidery image
Styling try on with notes
Final illustrated line up
Range plan
Final shoot imagery
Final shoot imagery
Final shoot imagery
DETAIL
I designed and created a menswear collection playing on british heritage.
Alongside the development of my embroidery style I developed shapes and silhouettes which push the introduction of the softness of flou into menswear with out compromising masculinity, achieved through a particular combination of cut and volume to achieve a strong silhouette. To challenge fashion’s problem of overconsumption, craftsmanship, the slowing of time and the appreciation of material come together in my collection through the use of embroidery and second hand materials.
"Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them"- Marc Jacobs
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