About Me
Hi I'm Kadie, a Fashion Design graduate from Uclan
I am northern based fashion design graduate who specialises in texture through textiles and fabric manipulation. My research focuses on the importance of size-inclusivity and sustainably made garments. My aim is as a designer is to celebrate diversity and embrace all body shapes.
Being a female fashion designer I wanted to focus on the insecurities in which women face daily. Mainly due to social media. The pressure we put on our selves to be the image of perfection, when life is anything but that.
INSPIRATION
Liberté de la Féminité, Designed for women.
My collection is called 'Liberté de la Féminité' meaning femininity freedom. Empowering women to feel free in their skin and body positive. Focusing on the female form and features. I want to embrace skin with sheer and stretch fabrics to focus on the feminine form. Whilst looking at textures that replicate skin. Focusing on insecurities and features women usually hide and embracing them. Empowered women, empower women, so here's to owning our own female form.
Through this concept you can expect to see insecurities and features of women we usually hide, but it's time to claim back our feminine freedom and embrace the good, bad and the ugly. My up-cycled skin-tone fabric range has been manipulated to replicate folds, blemishes, scars and marks in a body-positive way. Using scraps, patchwork, elastic, ruching to create a collection that celebrates skin and feeling free.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DETAIL
Fabric manipulation inspired by the female form
Focusing on the female form to create my texture through manipulation with the machine and hand stitching. Building up texture throughout my designs creating hypo textiles. Heavy textiles and fabric manipulation in my garments gives sculptural element of moulding to the female form. Looking at the female body and how it has imperfections and flaws. Embracing flesh and skin textures through my details, I have created textiles to replicate skin through tight ruching to give the effect of lumps and bumps. Touch on uneven skin-tones though my patchwork pieces. My skin-tone fabric range was developed sourced through deadstock and second-hand fabrics. Limiting how much of each fabric I have various shades of my skin-tone range of that work cohesively.
“Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.” — Eve Ensler
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