Visite a Mode Museum

Last week I travelled to the Belgium city of Antwerp to visit the Mode Museum - MOMU
Lots of beautiful textile designs and garments incorporating them. Such an inspiring exhibition!

 

 

 The Abraham Ltd. "Museum" of textiles. An archive created to preserve each design produced since 1955

                                           Monochrome

research for new collection

          Montage of Fashion Design Collections. Marie Claire Runway Issue S/S 2012

Looking to fashion, with the intention my designs will appeal to wearers in search for bold colours and patterned motifs

New York Exhibition

This weekend sees the opening of the exhibition Out Of This World! Jewlery In The Space Age at the Forbes Gallery in New York. Two pieces from my Graduate Collection are on display as part of the exhibition which runs until September 2013.

 

                            

         

                                Glint Neckpiece, 2011. Made from Titanium, acrylic, silver and steel

                             

                           Hue, Brooch 2011. Laser-cut Titanium, Acrylic, silver, steel,  

My kind of jewels

A collection of stones I bought at Inhorgenta to include in new work I'm designing. They include Ruby, Lapis and Amazonite. All rough cut and naturally coloured.

Today I travelled to Tilburg in the East of the Netherlands to visit the Textielmuseum. The various buildings which are clustered together to form the museum are comprised of old textile factories and many of the old machinery used in the past can be viewed by the public. TextielLab is an exciting assortment of modern day machines producing textile designers work with a diverse range of textiles being used and original designs. The exhibition on show, titled "Turkish Red & More", was a collection of International designers work inspired by the muesum's collection, with each designer interpreting the contents of the archive in their own way. The work by design duo Minale Maeda stood out for me, with their take on the idea of creating movement through repetition of motifs - altering details to bring an animation quality to the fabric.

BeAch TiMe

With the first signs of Spring I raced off to the beach to catch a glimpse of the ocean and waves which I hope to ride as soon as it gets warmer!

Floral Fashion

I am now the proud owner of a pair of earrings by the German Designer Marlene Beyer - take a look at her colourful designs at marlene-beyer.de

Surf's Up

Design at its best - "quartet of asymmetric boards, complete with asymmetric thruster fins, created by Chandelier Creative and surf store Saturdays Surf NYC."

Text and image courtesy of Wallpaper Issue Nov 2011