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REFERENCE

THE AUTUMN/WINTER 2015 COLLECTION IS A CONSUMMATE OF THE JOURNEY OF THE LAST FEW YEARS. LOOKING BACK TO THE RECENT PAST WHILST KEEPING A FIRM VISION ON THE FUTURE, THE COLLECTION IS A CELEBRATION OF THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED AND WHERE WE HAVE GONE. PRESENTING A RICH CORNUCOPIA OF SURFACE AND TEXTURE, THE PROCESS OF BUILDING THE COLLECTION HAS BEEN A CATHARTIC REMEMBERING OF MAKING WORK WITH NO KNOWLEDGE. TRYING TO RETURN TO A PLACE OF NAIVETY THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GARMENTS, AIMING TO IMBUE THE PIECES WITH AN EMOTIVE ATTACHMENT.

SETTING

ENCOMPASSING THE THEMES OF SENSATION WITH SOUND, AN IMMERSIVE SPACE IS CREATED COMPRISING OF RADIOS AND REDUNDANT TECHNOLOGY. A CHAOTIC AND KINETIC SCENE FILLS THE SPACE MAKING A DYSTOPIAN VISION OF ELECTRICAL FANS AND UNEXPECTED NOISE SOURCE. ECHOING ENGLISH’S VISION OF THE IMPERFECT AND THE FLAWED, THE FURNITURE IS COVERED AND DRAPED WITH DUSTSHEETS, HEIGHTENING THE RAWNESS OF THE ROOM. FUSING CHAOS WITH A SERENE CALMNESS, THE PRESENTATION PLAYS OUT TO AN ECLECTIC, MELODIC SOUNDSCAPE CONSTRUCTED FOR THE SHOW BY HUGH JONES.

COLLECTION

MATERIALS EMPLOYED INCLUDE SHIRTING COTTONS, LATEX, SHRIMP NET AND SOFT SUEDE AMONGST TULLE AND VELVET. THESE FABRICS OF DIFFERENT WEIGHTS, TRANSPARENCIES AND CONNOTATIONS WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE A MULTI-FACETED EXPERIENCE.

TEXTILES REFERENCE PIXILATION AND A SLOW MELTED DISTORTION. RESEARCH HAS ENCOMPASSED AN EVOLUTION OF SMOOTH-FACED RUG STITCHES, NOW NEWLY TRANSLATED INTO WEIGHTY VELVET ROPE EMBROIDERY ON A FINE NET. PLACEMENTS CREATE A HEAVY IMPASTO SURFACE WHICH SWEEPS ACROSS ITS DELICATE BASE.

COMPLEX LAYERED INSIDE OUT JACKETS INTERRUPT FULL DRAPED SILHOUETTES AND GARMENTS SHOW THE INNER-MOST WORKINGS OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION, FULLY EXPOSING THEIR DETAILS. OVERSIZED INKY HUED GLITTER WEIGHS TULLE GARMENTS DOWN, NESTLING IN THE SEAMS AND GLISTENING BENEATH TRANSLUCENT LAYERS OF NETTING.

ELSEWHERE

THE COMME DES GARCONS TRADING MUSEUM PARIS CURRENTLY HOSTS ‘AN ACCUMULATION OF NOTHING’, AN INSTALLATION REFERENCING OUR SPRING SUMMER 2015 PRESENTATION, ON DISPLAY UNTIL THE 8TH OF MARCH.

WE ARE ALSO PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE NOW GALLERY IN GREENWICH WILL HOST AN UPCOMING EXHIBITION – ‘PHOEBE ENGLISH : FLOATING | FALLING | DROWNING | FLYING, AN INTROSPECTIVE OF PROCESS’ FROM THE 20ST OF MAY UNTIL THE 10TH OF AUGUST.