About Me
I am a designer looking to distort traditional menswear conventions.
Im a menswear designer looking to distort and reshape traditional British tailoring using innovative creative pattern cutting techniques, print and textiles applications and styling. My goal is to bring an avant garde twist to conventions found in classical menswear.
My design process is a representation of is an iconoclastic look into what fashion can be. With an approach to distorting British menswear conventions with routes firmly grounded in essential menswear and tailoring.
INSPIRATION
Inspired by British tailoring, avant garde sentimentalities and British youth and street culture.
My inspiration has stemmed from the first anti fashion designers and their take on quiet luxury and and refined garments. Taking traditions and essential clothing and twisting and distorting it not only appeals to my design language but also to my personal manifesto and sentiment. My aim is to create garments that appeal to an audience of iconoclasts and I aim to use the distortion of traditional garments as a metaphor for a more generalised want to distort tradition to every sense of the word.
Inspiration also stemmed from the rave scene. A scene I have been a part of throughout most of my formative years. The rave scene represents to me unity, youth and a universal want to dissociate from reality. This want to disassociate in itself is rebellious. Whilst the world ticks on outside, some people just want to dance. Raving has allowed for a new form of community and communication Conversing through dance, body language and hand gestures. The rave scene represents blissful rebellion from hegemony
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Synopsis of collection
Research
Research
Shape collage
Shape and mood boards
Sketches looking at shape
Plaid Research
Dye and print
Mini Toile and long coat
Long coat print and final
Overcoat coat process
Print Progression
Loose tailored jacket process
Knit process
Print mood board
Print mood board
Print fabric samples
Print fabric samples
DETAIL
Distorted plaids and colour changing screen prints.
Wanting to distort traditional plaids and emphasise key words the rave scene connotes, like heat. I used my colour pallette to make a unique plaid and distorted the print. I also used heat reactive screen printing ink to emphasise the distortion and heat of a rave.
"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." Hunter S Thompson
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