AW19
Waste. Land.
Everything is connected.
This collection is founded on attempts at problem solving and being part of the solution. Reversing the process.
Beginning with both the start and the end of a garment’s life.
We have aimed to present to you pieces which encompass;
zero-waste pattern cutting,
GOTS certified organic cottons,
buttons made from excess dairy industry milk proteins,
natural corozo nut buttons,
fast-growing circular process bamboo silk,
re-shored english spun cotton shirting,
reclaimed production off-cuts,
natural un-dyed alpaca knits from an organic farm in Somerset, traditional welsh made wool flannels,
British waxed cottons,
Irish organic waxed cottons,
embroidery executed in brighton,
natural fibres sewn with cotton threads,
London handcrafted glasses made from swarf off-cuts,
handmade jewellery from repurposed melted down silver scrap,
British made shoes tanned organically with leaf excess from the olive industry.
Constructed textiles are formed from knotted lengths of reclaimed cotton carefully trapped between tulle small stacks of waste cotton cut into rectangular patches are trapped in to a many hinged coat.
A patchwork of many differing blacks from years of waste fabric accumulation.
Heavy folded culottes, dresses and ruched bags are cut with zero waste pattern cutting.
Cotton net is intricately folded into many pleated triangles.
Shirts, dresses and trousers are formed from a tonal patchwork of waste materials, all offered as limited
editions.
Knits in undyed alpaca, warmer than wool and stronger than cashmere, grown, spun and knitted all on one organic farm.
Shirts in english spun cotton, (for the first time in 160 years) are fastened with plastic free english buttons made from milk proteins.
Loose fitting boxy trousers and oversized jackets slouch in traditionally woven welsh wool flannels bright blue organic waxed cottons from ireland punctuate this monochrome collection.
Taking time out from showing in September has allowed me the time to explore my own personal, emotional and creative wasteland, in which I find the state of the fashion industry at large, which has brought me to the conclusion of this collection.
As I get older the more fragile my creative output has become. Creating the collections in a slower, smaller and more mindful manner has become the only conclusion to going forwards, if that is indeed what we are doing.
I have used this time to explore approaches and actions to making work which can be described as attempts at solutions.
How we work and what we do and what we have, matters. Everything we have, everything we own, has to come from somewhere and eventually, it has to go somewhere. we are just the middle men. What are we going to do with that?
