Living Life Creatively
Creating marketable products is an essential element of design but sometimes, as a designer, you just want to play around like you did at art college and create something for the sheer hell of it. So when hair stylist, Andrew Cave, invited me to collaborate on a project for the Wella Trend Vision Young Talent …
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Upcycling is an integral part of my ethos as a fashion designer. Creating new pieces from existing items is a great way to ensure that we don't contribute needlessly to landfill and is a fabulous opportunity to buy a unique, one of a kind item. This gorgeous sheer blouse with embroidery & beading detail began life …
17 March 1969 - 11 February 2010
Credited as bringing bohemian chic to 60's London, artist & fashion designer Thea Porter is being celebrated at the Fashion & Textile Museum, London with a fabulous retrospective of her work. Porter was a master of fusion - giving Eastern historical & cultural reference a modern edge which had rockstars & movie stars clamouring to …
Working on gorgeous one-of-a-kind pieces for the summer featuring hand-painted silks & stunning hand-crafted embellishment...
The ultimate inspiration for designing light as a feather summer gowns in the studio today. (c) Original Photograph by Kate Boeken 2014
Okay, so we'll skim over the fact that the wedding invite arrived in January... An entire 7 months laid before me in which to design and create a special dress for my Nephew's wedding and I promised myself that I was not going to leave it Until The Last Minute.Except I did. July came into full swing and I was …
When the spring sunshine makes its' first tentative appearance, it's time to throw off the woolly winter layers and feel the gentle sun on your skin. Celia Birtwell's vintage designs are the perfect transitional piece. These beautiful textiles are true works of art, based on still life studies. Most widely known for the seductive & …
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