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PRESENTING ON MINIATURE FORM HAS ALLOWED US THE POSSIBILITY TO RE-EVALUATE THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT WE ARE SAYING THROUGH THE SCALE OF HOW WE SAY IT.

OUR COLLABORATION WITH PUPPET MAKER JUDITH HOPE REFERENCES THE TRADITION
OF PARISIAN COUTURIERS PRODUCING THEIR WORKING TOILES IN QUARTER SCALE. THE ACCUMULATION OF MARKS, PATINAS AND TRACES OF MAKING LEFT BEHIND ON THE FABRIC COVERINGS FROM OUR TEXTILE CONSTRUCTION TABLES, NOW MAKE UP THE MARIONETTE FORMS WITH WHICH WE SHOW OUR 15TH WOMENSWEAR COLLECTION

RENDERED IN SHARP MONOCHROMES OF COAL AND PAPER-WHITE, COTTON SHIRTING SITS ALONGSIDE LAYERS OF FRANTIC NETTING. RAW SLUB AND LIGHT CANVASES AND BUNDLES OF MUSLIN ARE EMPLOYED WITH DELICATE COTTON POPLINS AND FRAGILE TRANSPARENT TULLES. PARCEL STRING IS KNITTED INTO LUMPY BAGGAGE AND INTRICATE KNOTTED NETTING SURFACES ARE MADE FROM ROBUST ROPING.

THE KNITWEAR PIECES IN THIS COLLECTION ARE PART OF OUR LONG STANDING COLLABORATION WITH BRITISH HERITAGE BRAND JOHN SMEDLEY.

WORKING NOTES

GOING FORWARD GOING BACKWARD

SHIFTING, FIDGETING, FIGHTING SEAMS BOUNDARIES, ENCLOSURES COLLAPSED SCALLOPS
GENERAL UNREST

KNOTTED NETS - ENTRAPMENT DEVICES, ENTRAPMENT - ENTANGLEMENT

GENERAL CHAOS
FALLEN CLOUD DAMAGED EDGE REMEMBERING LEARNING FADING INTO NOTHING.