THE HIDDEN KINGDOM

My Graduate collection, ‘The Hidden Kingdom’ is inspired by ten species of fungi and their marvellous fruiting bodies.
Like fungi, my collection doesn’t confide under a certain label. I use techniques and materials that stretch the boundaries of textile and fashion disciplines such as plasma cut copper body adornments.
I am making my collection for luxury women’s occasion wear. It includes timeless pieces that embody the individual wearer and their unique style. I have made my collection for Spring/ Summer 2021. However, I have ‘edited’ the trends that I think my clientele will want to embrace including hardware and accessory trends as well as merely textile and fashion ones.
My collection includes a series of manipulated silk garments as well as copper and wood hardware body adornments that can be used as separate jewellery pieces or as styling pieces that sit on top of the silk altering and distorting its natural drape on the body whilst cinching silhouettes in places that flatter the individual wearer for a fashion forward finish that is dramatic yet wearable. 
My collection celebrates slow, hand craft focusing on quality, authenticity and uniqueness. It also embraces generated perfection.
It glorifies the weird and wonderful power of duality- combining, contrasting, juxtaposing, and harmonising handcraft with technology; structure with fluidity; soft materials with hard; ‘edited’ trends with my style aesthetic and my clienteles’; soft focus with sharp; and certainty with ambiguity and the unknown.