About Me
Fashion Knitwear Designer with a love for sustainability & innovation
Through my Fashion Knitwear degree, past internships and general love of fashion, I’ve learnt that I have a strong affinity towards colours and use of colours. I also have love for tactile playful exploration through knit and mixed media that encourages sustainability and innovation.
Because knitwear is so tactile, it is very expansive in its many approaches and the ways it can be utilised or experimented with and I often find myself drawn to working with fine or shear knits that explore texture. My concept led me to have an investigative approach in the ways I explored different possibilities and material combination with knit.
INSPIRATION
Skin
Through my concept 'SKIN' for my collection, I was able to lean heavily into colour exploration as well as experiment with sustainable natural process like natural dyeing and working with bio-plastic. For this project I was both inspired by skin as an organ and the different elements within skin that allowed it to be so malleable and contributed to its development - including products we use on skin. I was also inspired by society's beauty ideals, including the recent rise of skincare.
My concept focuses on four main element of the skin. Skin As A Structure will focus on exploring skin’s structural properties such as skin’s elastic properties and layering. For Skin As Skincare Products, I will be directly translate qualities within skincare products into my work. Skin As Melanin, is where the development of my colour palette will come from, focusing on categorising colours and exploring hues and gradients within them. And lastly Skin As Sensory, which is embed throughout my collection.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Concept Board
Skin As A structure
Skin As A structure
Fashion Context Board
Bio- Plastic Development
Skin As Melanin
Skin As Melanin
Skin As Melanin
Outfit One Fabric Development
Outfit Two Development
Outfit Three Development
Collection Line Up
Collection Details
Collection Lookbook
Collection Lookbook
Collection Lookbook
Collection Lookbook
DETAIL
Bio-Plastic Bodice
Using organic or natural processes and materials is very important in communicating my concept 'SKIN', as there is nothing more organic. Which is why I explored natural and sustainable practices through use of bio – fabrication within my collection to coat my knitted samples initially and then later my knitted fabrics for the third outfit. As well as creating bio-plastics and utilising it's ability to mold into shape for the bio-plastic corset. I created bio – plastics through mainly glycerine and vegetable gelatine mixtures (both which are bio- degradable and organic in matter). And I also explored natural dyeing both as a sustainable method and to be able to play around with developing hues within colours organically through testing and documenting. This bio- plastic bodice also used natural dyeing in the form of cutch powder for it's colouring.
"Your skin has a memory". Jane Elston
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