FASHION MUSEUM BATH ACQUISITION
We are excited to announce that Fashion Museum Bath have acquired two looks from our archive.
Full looks from both our AW19 and Nothing New Part Two collections are now part of their permanent fashion selection. Fashion Museum Bath holds one of the world's leading collections of fashion covering 500 years of creativity in over 100,000 objects.
TEX 336 FOLDED TRIANGLE HARNESS TOP, TEX DRS 333 KNOT TIE DRESS AND DRS 324 BOX SLEEVE SLIP
This looks comprises of three garments styled layered up; an intiricate folded textile harness top, a sheer knot tie textile dress and a box sleeve slip dress.
They encompass some of the very first trials into new working approaches that we were exploring at the time and which we now have built across our entire collections.
The folded triangle harness top is made from GOTS certified cotton tulle and is constructed using a zero waste textile folding pattern which interlocks into itself, to produce the detailed surface. These sleeves are suspended around the arms with a delicate strap harness.
The knot tie dress is constructed from reclaimed cotton collected from our own studio offcut waste. These waste offcuts are then cut into narrow strips and knotted into long lengths. These knotted lengths are then trapped between two layers of tulle. The knots give a ‘bow’ detail visible through the transparency of the fabric.
The box sleeve slip under-layer represents one our first developments of zero waste pattern cutting. Each pattern piece is designed to sit edge to edge on the fabric so that none of the precious material is wasted. It’s cut and sewn from OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified bamboo viscose; the pattern and garment design were developed specifically for this fabric.
JKT 402 QUILTED PUFF JACKET AND SKT 403 QUILTED PUFF SKIRT.
This looks comprises of two quilted textile pieces, a quilted jacket and skirt. Both made from waste material sourced from our alternative fabric sourcing network and our own textile waste; practices we had just started to develop during the time of designing.
This look is created from reclaimed silk and wool fabric and is in part response to lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. Pyjama forms, house dresses, house jackets, homely, soft and pre-washed crinkled, slouchy surfaces appeared across the collection. These quilted duvet jackets and skirts protect and envelop a mother, seeking soft homely comfort in a time of a seemingly endless crisis. The iconography and use of the ‘plus’ quilting pattern is a comment on togetherness juxtaposed with the gaps and spaces left in between each panel.
We developed garment patterns that involved less waste design, trying to use up as much of the waste fabric as possible, the pieces are stuffed with silk scraps and offcuts from previous collections. Aiming to ‘tidy up’ after ourselves as we go along.
This look has been loaned to the Design Museum’s exhibition Waste Age: What can Design Do? as an example of our re-use of waste. The exhibition toured and this has been exhibited in London, Beijing and Paris.
Thank you so much to the team at the Fashion Museum Bath for facilitating this acquisition.
