I am so in love with the Macramé collection that Louise Goldin did for Fashion East. I know, I know… old news but I just had to put this on Knitkicks some time or another because it’s absolutely beautiful. The emerald green swimsuit macramé piece has to be my favourite by miles.
The collection was inspired [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 29, 2009
Louise Goldin Macramé
May 26, 2009
Royal College of Art 2009 Preview
I must admit I am more inspired by graduate work than actual designers. This is because I find that graduates aren’t limited by worrying about if their garments will sell, if it’s wearable, influenced by a manager/boss and they don’t have to work to a labels particular look. Therefore they are free to do what [...]
May 22, 2009
Igor Galas
Recently Igor Galas was selected among 10,000 young designers to be in the final 30 for the Hempel Award at China Fashion Week. Unfortunately he lost out to Chen Jiawei, but the fact that he could be selected out of so many candidates to show at this prestigious award tells us that he is clearly [...]
May 19, 2009
Sachio Kawasaki
Looking at this collection has sparked memories of doing those op-art projects back in school and copying whatever Bridget Riley had done. The collection by Central Saint Martins MA graduate Sachio Kawasaki is an optical art dream land. Definitely one of the most memorable collection for me from a graduate.
Sachio presented his A/W 2009-10 collection [...]
May 15, 2009
Makepiece; Ethical Knitwear
I love it when I come across ethical designers because I can appreciate the extra efforts and thoughts they have put into their designs. I once had to do an ethical project at uni which was truly a pile of shit to say the least. It made me realise that ethical design is so much [...]
