GETTING TO KNOW DESIGNERS AND THEIR WORK
What are the influences and inspirations for this project summed up into a few words or phrases?
What music would you pair with your collection?
Where did your research start?
Where did you grow up?
What is the colour scheme?
These are the questions we came up with to ask the designers to not only understand their work a bit better, but to engage more with the designers and know more about them and their design/ working progress.
SOPHIE
- Influenced by ageing and the elderly, growing old
- A drastic difference in style is down to age itself or a generational differences throughout the years influenced by the world around them and developments in the world
- Reused hosiery reminiscent of older ladies
- Sustainability- reusing materials for a different purpose
- Older music, beach boys, classical music and old classics
- Grew up in surrey
- Monochromatic beige and blacks for the colour scheme
ELLIE
- Influenced by over consumption within our western society
- Music; Melanie Martinez style music, dark alternative,
- Research started with shapes to include along this theme, looking at sculptor Fernando Botero to inspire a larger more fuller silhouette
- Also researched ways in which to be as ethical and sustainable as possible; proving to be a challenge then decided on using old curtains and bedding, knitted jumpers from charity shops, recycled wadding
- Grew up in Stoke-on-Trent
- Colour pallet is grey, different shades of pinks and purples
- Traditional Japanese Geisha sandals
ROMILY
- Influences were the 1940s fur coats and burlesque outfits
- Research started with 1940s Vogue Paris and the silhouettes of coats from there
- Grew up in Brighton/Worthing
- Colour scheme is brown/nude/gold
- Pairing the refined glamour from 1940s with the modern day boujiness that people are finding today, comparing and contrasting
