Places We're Going…

Alexander McQueen, A/W2009/10.

Are we talking enough about the other side of glamour?

Isabella Blow models hat by Alexander McQueen (made by Treacy), 2005

Lucienne Day, dress fabric design (HC6237) for Cavendish Textiles, manufactured on behalf of the John Lewis Partnership, UK, c.1954.

As a tribute to British textile designer, Lucienne Day, we started the Slow Textiles Workshop 11: 1950s Modernist Surfaces – Taking Inspiration from British Textile Designer Lucienne Day and X-ray Crystallography – with Print, Applique & Stitch on to Upcycled Fabric,  by talking and thinking of her as an inspiration to our own textile practices and central to our design heritage.

Bricolage’s temporary pop-up shop in Brixton Market, November 2009 – January 2010.

Today we went to Bricolage’s pop-up shop in Brixton Market.

Katherine May, one of the members of this exciting new London textile collective,  held her workshop there: “An Introduction to Patchwork Quilting.”

The Slow Textiles group thoroughly enjoyed it and has begun work inspired by the occasion. Come back soon to see!

“The infrastructure of the Internet can be considered the cybernetic equivalent of an ecosystem.” Image and quote taken from University of California’s San Diego Supercomputer Center.

This week we met Koodos entrepreneur Miriam Lahage.

She gave an inspirational talk at the Business of Fashion Masterclass.

Lahage gave refreshing voice to the creative potential of online dissemination.

For The Slow Textiles Group, this represents the dissemination of sewing skills and zero waste strategies that will generate DIY Fashion and Extended Life product and textile tools for all.