Selection of images from the Chelsea College of Art and Design Foundation Show.
Images top to bottom: Sarah Roberts (Fine Art pathway), Fashion Textiles pathway, 3D Spatial pathway.
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Selection of work from the Chelsea College of Art and Design Foundation Show.
Images top to bottom: Bronte Dow (Fine Art pathway), Catriona Hudson (Visual Communication pathway), Fashion Textiles Pathway.
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This week Christopher Bailey, Design Director for Burberry Fashion House, took time out to talk to Textile Design students at Chelsea College of Art and Design and to answer questions about his views, ideas and experience of designing for Burberry.
During the hour session Chris spoke about the Burberry philosophy and their approach to design. He answered students’ questions regarding their different lines, the concepts behind the designs and their origins; describing how the colour, texture and attitude of a fabric can inspire a whole collection.
Chris also talked about the democratic origins of the company, describing how their founder Thomas Burberry (C19th) gradually became adopted by the nobility to the point where the King would simply ask for his ‘Burberry’ yet still continued to serve the needs of all levels of society. Chris explained the challenge this brings to their design team and the different ways that they have attempted to maintain and promote this sense of heritage while ensuring that the brand remains relevant and contemporary.
This session provided a great opportunity for students to get a valuable insight into the workings of a major fashion house and Chris answered questions on the company’s approach to sustainability, how design teams work together and are recruited and gave tips on forging a career in the industry. He encouraged students to develop their own point of view, individuality and attitude and stressed the importance of being able to communicate all these aspects through their work.
The link between Chelsea College and Burberry Group plc is the Millbank location in London and a deep commitment to the development of innovation and quality in the design and use of textiles. For the past two years the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground has also played host to the seasonal fashion shows.
A series of lectures, workshops, processes and materials have been offered to students to extend their practice with a grant from Burberry plc, under Christopher’s direction. In addition to this week’s visit, Chris will continue to engage with the project by responding to student questions on a blog and offering a professional context and eventual work-placement.
Recently a project was devised to connect the central theme of sustainability project for Final year BA and MA Textile Design Students during the Autumn Term 2010. In response to the project brief ‘Inside/Outside’, students will design a collection of beautiful fabrics to inspire fashion designers, which make the most of the fabrics’ qualities in stitch, weave, knit, print and digital production. Using models of production, valuing craft skills and awareness of new technologies, the project emphasis on sustainable luxury offers a model for students to translate their ideas into action.
The work will be judged by the Chelsea textile staff team and Christopher with the winning designers receiving a Burberry Sponsor’s Prize and internship in Burberry’s studio.
You can read more about this project as it evolves and also find out about other innovative live projects currently being developed by Chelsea textile students and staff.
Sophie Parker Chelsea College of Art & Design
Latitude Festival 2010 invited Chelsea BA (Hons) textile design students to take part in a unique fashion show at this year’s event, with the chance to exhibit their final collections to huge numbers of festival goers and press on a bespoke catwalk.
The festival took place at Henham Park in Suffolk between Thursday 15th and Sunday 18th July 2010.
The fashion show received great coverage with designs by Chelsea students featuring in The Times and a number of online reviews.
You can read more about the students who took part and their work in the linkk below:
http://glasswerk.co.uk/news/national/9232/Billy+Bragg+Discusses+Identity+At+Latitude
Sophie Parker Chelsea College of Art & Design
Latitude Festival provides a forum for a wide variety of art forms, including comedy, music, literature, poetry, cabaret and fashion. Latitude has a capacity of 30,000.
http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/home/
Our Textiles Environment Design section (TED) have been beavering away and now some of their designers will be displaying their latest work at Camberwell Space from Wednesday 7th July as part of AA2A 2010 Exhibition.
Go along and feast your eyes on these tasty textiles.
One of the the designers Clara Vuletich has been exploring the idea of
How can digital print be used to enhance and celebrate old heirloom fabric pieces?
Can a ‘digital craft’ process, using sustainable base cloths, help to reinvent the traditions of quilting and patchwork?
For more about her work and her use of digital printing go to her blog at http://www.loveandthrift.com/
Here is the second of our previews of some of the work you can expect to see in ‘Unravel’ – the MA Textile Design interim show, which opens next week.
The show will feature a broad mixture of products and concepts ranging from sustainable and ethical fashion and interior textiles, to conceptual artwork and technology applications.
Full details can be found here.
Images top to bottom: Belma Kapetanovic, Teresa Albor.
At the end of this month the MA Textile Design students from Chelsea College of Art and Design will be exhibiting their work in an interim show entitled ‘Unravel’. In the next couple of weeks in the run up to the show we will give you a sneak preview of some of their work.
The show will feature a broad mixture of products and concepts ranging from sustainable and ethical fashion and interior textiles, to conceptual artwork and technology applications.
Sustainability in textiles is also a core issue within the work of several of the students. These students are ahead of the curve on the current changes within the markets and their visions of sustainable textile interiors and fashion design will be on display.
Dates and times of the exhibition can be found here.
Images top to bottom: Arliyah Hussain, Fiona Walker.
ANNUAL INDUSTRY MARKETPLACE FOR SUPPLIERS OF SUSTAINABLE FABRICS, COMPONENTS AND MANUFACTURERS TO THE FASHION INDUSTRY
Friday 20th-Saturday 21st November, Chelsea College of Art & Design
As a culmination of 2009’s Spotlight on Sourcing event series, the Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) will be holding a two-day Ethical Sourcing Marketplace in London.
The marketplace will bring together representatives of brands and retailers with manufacturers, suppliers and cooperatives working to high ethical standards.
This event aims to promote sustainable fashion practices, and facilitate sustainable sourcing amongst fashion professionals. It will provide a platform and opportunities for suppliers with exemplary practices. Ultimately, EFF’s goal is to reduce the environmental impact of the industry, support fair and equitable trade, and reduce poverty.
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BA (Hons) Interior & Spatial Design feature
Two Chelsea graduates are featured in Blueprint magazine’s feature on the best from the 2009 Summer Shows. Royal Designer for Industry Terence Woodgate described the experience of visiting the Chelsea Show as ‘entertaining, enlightening and even shocking’, and stepped out of his discipline to select Interior & Spatial Design and Textile students as among the top 50 design graduates in the UK.
The selected students were:
Terumoto Mizushima from BA (Hons) Interior & Spatial Design
Lisa Walker from BA (Hons) Textile Design
Work from Marit Fujiwara's final collection 'Wound'
Seems like it isn’t taking long for our 2009 graduates to start making a name for themselves. BA (Hons) Textile Design graduate Marit Fujiwara’s final collection is the subject of an article in the latest Style Bubble blog. Susie Bubble, who was named among the Evening Standard’s ‘London’s most influential’ in the Fashion category, writes:
Look, look closer, rub your eyes a bit if you have sleep/sweat and look again. I took literally blinked at those detailed shots and then started bemoaning and wailing into the sky shouting “Why god? Why am I such a talentless melting potato?” This is mind bogglingly detailed work to a crazy level that is probably above and beyond the call of a graduate trying to get their work noticed. This is a collection that I imagine being done by a minute perfectionist where one strand can’t be out of place and the colours of the threads have to go in a specific order so as to not upset the balance. This is where shapes of garments can be chucked out of the window because the kind of textile work going on is so intricate, with a supreme level of depth and innovation (not that Marit’s shapes are poor anyway…). She labels some of her images as ‘cake’ and the reference is not lost when you think of the devastating anal precision that goes into a patissier’s work… these are in fact probably the clothing equivalent of Antonin Carême’s creations (just re-read his bio…too good).
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