Jamie Wei Huang I

Jamie Wei Huang AW 2014 collection fuses very different contrasting fabrics, contrasting lengths and asymmetry, with bold details of buckled pockets, cuffs and clasps. 

Yiqing Yin I

Amazing structures of layered pleats producing a textured garments resembling coral or magnified detail or organic structures like electron micrographs by designer Yiqing Yin.
'Examining the dynamic potential of pleats, she imagines structures which are never fixed, shapes that are always in mutation. She sculpts the emptiness around the body with, as a common thread, the search for balance and points of rupture between the flowing zones and the sculpted zones. The modernisation of smocking and the elimination of any order of construction, allows her great room for experimentation.'

Yiqing Yin 

Mariel Manuel

The eclectic mix of texture objects and referencing to animal skins, horns and feathers in Mariel Manuel's collection 'when you go looking for your lover' of 2009 make me think of anthropological portraits of shamans and tribal peoples. They are incongruous, fascinating and fun.

Sylvia Palacios Whitman I

Sylvia Palacios Whitman was born in Chili in 1941 she studied painting and drawing  in Santiago school of Art.  Sylvia moved to New York in the early 1960's where gradually she moved away from drawing and painting into the domain of performance art using sculptural and visual stage props to make a visual theater.

“I did study a little ballet, like all little girls. But I always entertained my family in the attic. At the time I just didn’t know it was something you could do. So eventually I’ve gotten to where I always was!” Sylvia Palacios Whitman

Indalia

Indalia blends Indian textiles, embroidery and embellishment with Italian tailoring. The company was founded by Monica Benini and is based in Faenza  exhibiting twice a year at the Milan Fashion weeks.

Jane Bowler II

Jane Bowler from her 'Fall From Grace collection of SS 2012, featuring lots of cut, dyed plastic.

Jane Bowler I

My first post in three about the work of Jane Bowler this is from her collection Transcendency AW12.
Jane repeatedly plays with geometric shapes and translucence in her collections, using hand dyed plastics and heat forming techniques, she is driven by her passion for craftsmanship and innovation within textiles and design. Jane Bowler is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and she was announced as an “Emerging Designer” finalist of the renowned annual “WGSN Global Fashion Awards 2013”.
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