Great British designer Alice Temperley is evolving into a sophisticated womenswear designer! The innate textile designer in her renders her garments timeless and desirable. She uses lace, devoree, print, embroidery and broderie anglaise in her latest collection seen here to such a harmonious, serene and sophisticated level. We love it!
London Fashion Week Showcases Slow Textiles!
Jonathan Saunders for the Green Carpet Challenge yesterday at Somerset House.
We’re excited to report that London Fashion Week opened this week with a star-studded slow textiles showcase at Somerset House! Eight London-based designers team together with Livia Firth and CLASS this week to create a timeless fashion moment that celebrates British fashion, film and sustainable fabrics.
Livia Firth’s Hollywood connections have inspired a celebration of British Film with the best of ‘best practice’ British Fashion! All the textiles used in the eight showcase silhouettes – inspired by British movie classics – were sourced by Guisy Bettoni CEO at the superlative sustainable textiles materials library, CLASS Eco Library.
The eight London-based designers ensembles.
Here is the Green Carpet Challenge Team that made it all possible yesterday at Somerset House, London, including Livia Firth, Lucy Siegle, Jocelyn Whipple and Orsola de Castro!
For further details on each designers work and the British movies that inspired them, go here.
Make Textiles into Short Movies!
Tania Grace Knuckey is a recent graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven and the Royal College of Art, a Texprint 2012 winner and the International Flavours and Fragrances ‘The Future of Beauty’ 2012 winner! She creates paintings and narratives in textiles that you won’t have seen before. She transforms her textiles into movies! This is like Nathalie du Pasquier meets Jan Svankmajer!
Come see her work at the Slow Studio on November 3rd 2012 where she’ll be part of a hands-on afternoon with the interactive theme Transform Textiles into Short Films!
Discover amazing fast and slow techniques for transforming beautiful designs into short movies for uTube, websites, exhibition and multimedia! If we like the results, you may be selected to exhibit in our Textile Films exhibition in London, April 2013!
Slow Textiles Group+DIY Couture at V&A Fashion Galleries!
Giles Deacon, Spring-Summer 2007 DIY Couture, SS 2012
We’re delighted to announce that we’re teaming up with the amazing, paradigm-shifting DIY Couture this autumn to run a blockbuster course called DIY Digital Couture in tandem with the new Fashion Galleries at the V&A and the Digital Design Suite in the Sackler Centre, the educational centre for the V&A.
We’ll be teaching you how to make lush, full swing skirts with digital and embroidered details that echo some of the exuberant sumptuousness now on display in the new Fashion Galleries Ballgowns show!
Details will be posted on @slowtextiles Twitter as they come up. We look forward to welcoming you there!
Textile Talks 2013!
We love the vivid and seamless relationship between American artist Jacob Magraw-Mickelson’s drawing and stitching as seen in these images!
It’s really too bad if you missed Ying Wu’s publication at the Slow Studio of her research, creative process and future direction in relation to global destructive industrial activity on August 11th 2012 and Geraldine Peclard’s insights into qualitative methodologies for interpreting the chemistry of psychiatry for creating symbolic form and pattern in printed textiles on July 14th 2012!
Following the great success of these Slow Textiles Group Textile Talks, we are soon to announce our exciting international line-up for 2013!
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