About Me
Hello, I’m Jordan Lewin; A Fashion Design Graduate from Uni of Derby.
Fashion Design to me is more than just the finished product but the journey along the way. Fashion illustration and digital designs is a personal strength of mine and I thrive on finding creative ways to showcase my ideas, later making them a reality.
Duality is the focal point of my collection of work this year as I combined my mixed heritage of Jamaican and British ancestry to enable a process of evaluation of the contrasting cultures. By doing so I created a body of work to highlight the differences and similarities of the cultures and create a collection that walks the fine line between the two.
INSPIRATION
Duality was Inspired by the lack of representation in fashion for mixed-race individuals.
One of my main inspirations when it comes to menswear is Bianca Saunders as the way she depicts menswear through the lens of a black woman is incredibly unique, corning a market that was yet to be monopolised, establishing herself as a high fashion menswear designer.
Being of Jamaican and British descent I’ve been exposed to and embraced Jamaican culture at an early age; this meant I was also introduced to anti-gay rhetoric and idioms that were so normalised you didn’t realise the gravity of phrases such as “Battyman fi ded” and “chi-chi bwoy”. I wanted to use my collection to highlight the realities of the queer individual living in Jamaica compared to their British counterparts creating a line up that walked a fine line between the two cultures.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Mood Board on Duality
Origin of print development "Redemption Song"
Development of print into patterns
Shima Seiki samples experimenting with prints
Outfit Board/ Working Drawing
Technical Development Board
How I would depict Duality's consumers.
Outfit Board, Front & Back View
Depiction of menswear vinyl suit in unisex outfit
Vinyl Suit Front & Back View with fabric used.
Vinyl Suit Details
Sublimation suit with working drawings.
Colour Development/ Layering
Colour Development Board
Outfit Board with working drawings & illustrations
Technical Development Board
Dynamic Photoshoot Outfit 1
Duality of clothes photoshoots
Final Line Up with corresponding prints
DETAIL
Duality is the combination of contrasting ideas/cultures to create the space “inbetween”.
Many biracial individuals live in duality, understanding both their Black identity coupled with their White identity with some struggling the navigate the grey area of duality. It is with this collection I hope to highlight and showcase the beauty of duality.
“Men want to feel like they can attract people. Regardless of [anything], people want to feel like they can attract people.”
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