David William Telfer

David William Telfer is a menswear designer. His Idea's focuses on simplistic methods of improving the efficiency of the construction process where he creates garments contstructed with just one seam/ one piece. [as illustrated on some of his business cards- see below] The emphasis on the process of his work seen on his website illustrates his exploration and approach to fashion appearing to be more of a science, a mathematical experiment and this exploration is the genius, where the garments are the conclusion.

It's Business....

Pictures from the University of Brighton fashion show

Show me what you got then

Before the University of Brighton fashion show was due to start, I was fortunate enough t catch the exhibition taking place at grand parade. Here I spotted many visionary treats.
The fashion and textiles space was of course looking very sparse due to the fact that the garments were downstairs on rails backstage ready for the models to walk them down the catwalk. There was however postcards with images from their collections....

Seana Italia Redmond and Naomi-Jane Foot

Bradley Dykes and Anna Woodward

David William Telfer and Daisy Newman

Steven Woodward and Ilona Yolshina-Cash

Another find in the exhibition is Redmond's Book, designed by graphic designers, Becky Sian, Joe Luxton, Miles Gould and Claude D'Avoine, it features images from her photo shoot, which was also filmed [see below]

Yet another piece of moving image this year was created for Steven Woodward's collection. A really cute idea of a girl picking her outfit before going out, holding up outfits to her body in the mirror, doing her make up...........

look here:

University of Brighton graduate fashion show

Saturday evening saw the University of Brighton Graduate fashion show. Having been invited the "Industry show" [super exciting!], I unfortunately unable to see full collections from the textile designers including Daisy Newman and Seana Italia Redmond. However I did get to see collections from:

The almighty Julius Quinn Arther. Having seen the collection previously via shots from the fashion shoot, it was very exciting to see them in motion, like spotting a famous person you love as you walk down the street. Styled to the nines, the collection looked stunning.

Caitlin Price's collection for me was one of my favourites, her designs conveyed a beautiful contrast of functional coats and jacket with luxurious long jersey and silk skirts:

Caitlin also won the best catwalk collection. Snaps to her!

Bradley Dykes' collection for me was a big surprise, not his ability of course, I always knew he would produce something super cool and amazing [and in jersey], just adorning boys not girls. His prints were generated by taking stills from videos he made on his mobile and blowing them up before digitally printing them....

My favourite garm:

Hannah Louise Moores draws nice pictures, very nice pictures, some of these pictures have been transferred onto the garments in her collection. As I hate to admit it,[as a previous student of printed textiles for fashion] I don't wear print. I don't generally get excited by it, but this [especially the first look] I do. And the garms are pretty cool too.....

Mercedes Williams created collection which appeared to be collaged and cut up with great contrast in fabrics and shapes.....

check out the toggles on this baby!

Rachel Poulter's striking collection channels structural and architectural surface manipulation in forming shapes which cocoon the body, suggesting a protective nature to the garments.

Well done graduates, you did good!

Newman

On Saturday evening I attended the University of Brighton graduate fashion show, of which included the work of Print and fashion designer Daisy Newman. [I have yet to post the catwalk report- I promise it will be up for viewing pleasure in the next couple of days] Here is an animation she created featuring looks from her graduate collection.

TRACES

As the academic year draws to a close the new young talents start to emerge from the confinements of their studio cocoons where they have been preparing spread their wings and fly into the fashion jungle.


Here we have the unstoppable force that is Seana Italia Redmond [or Seana Stormer to her nearest and dearest.]. Her collection entitles Traces stems from her research which explores capturing knitwear on camera and how photography has the potential to feed into her knitwear.
She has created a book [more to come once I get my hands on it] which she created alongside some graphics students to compliment the collection.

here are some extracts from the book which explain the origins of collection:

'The photography has been a tool to capture the elusive movement and texture of my knitwear; the capture of these garments means they are precious frozen frames of moments in time which could otherwise have been lost in the blink of an eye.'

'This constant pendulum motion between the knitwear and photographs allows both disciplines to feed off each other: effectively one cannot succeed without the other.'

'The knitwear is therefore driving a mood and tempo rather than merely being a static collection that is captured and presented through a photographic record.'

For more information, visit her blog here

House of Quinn

Here are the looks from the debut House of Quinn collection designed by Julius Quinn Arthur.

Arthur, a recent graduate of the University of Brighton titled his collection, "DEATH BECOMES HER". The design incorporates his research of British taxidermy collections and the processes of creating a taxidermy specimen, complimented by the inner workings of the animal form, looking at muscle structure to inspire texture and surface manipulation to create a unique six-piece collection.
His long flowing dresses and contrasting structured jackets are part of the "Demi Couture" aesthetic. ME LIKEY


I interviewed Julius a couple of months ago, read it here