the end was near.

This time last year I was toiling this outfit for final collection time down in Brighton. I wish my friends doing it now the best of luck. x x

naked suit

I remember walking around the Central Saint Martin's Graduate Collection a few years ago when my dream was to attend CSM and later become a famous fashion designer [the latter dream has melted away somewhat since then but the first became true as I was accepted the next year for a foundation course there] I remember one student in particular, not by name but for her naked body print catsuit. I still have her business card [with the same print on] that I picked up on my visit, now stowed away in my "box of things I keep and can't/won't throw away", a memory box if you will.
This is the work of Olivia Rubin, who's work I reacquainted with after finding her signature brick prints featuring heavily in the AW09 collection. See here.

Another student exhibiting in the room this year was Christopher Kane. I can't recall CK's stand so much, though I do remember vividly his page in the catalog, he had a picture of his "Vogue" necklace. [I searched through most of my back issues of vogues from the era in search of an image I recall of him wearing it, unfortunately with no joy. I did however find an article in the December 06 issue where it describes the necklace accompanied with a photograph by David Baily- you can see it vaguely through the gap in his denim Jacket]

detail from photo by David Baily for Vogue, Dec 06

T.P.I.o.D.i.t.M.o.S.L.

A print designed from the research around the idea of "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" by Damien Hirst.

"My Powers of Ten"

Here are some pieces from my graduate collection......
I started my research by documenting the scars on my body and where, how and when I got them. I then found great inspiration from the film ‘Powers of Ten’ a 1977 short documentary film written and directed by Ray Eames and her husband, Charles Eames.

I represented the scale effect the film illustrates in the prints by layering imagery on top of each other. I used glow in the dark particles to create the effect of one image merging into another. The glow particles are near invisible in the light resulting in entirely different print in the dark.