Luci Jockel

"Can the touch of bee wings on one’s shoulders serve as a reminder of the fragility of life? In my work, the bee is a martyr for our ecosystem- a symbol of the influence we have upon non-human counterparts and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable." Luci Jockel 

Luci Jockel is a jeweller based in Baltimore who is also Metal smithing & Jewellery Lecturer and Area Coordinator at Towson University. Here she has sources over 20000 bee wings from hives that died due to harsh winter/ climate change, and created incredible lace like pieces. In exchange for the bee remains she helped the bee keeper re-build his hives for the next year. Since then Luci and her dad have become bee keepers.

"The honey bee serves as a symbol of our interconnectivity, the influence we have upon non-human counterparts, and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable. It is not only about the bees, who have a complex impact on agriculture, but the pollinators, the insects, the animals that make up our ecosystem and our lost connection to them."

Freya Ledingham

 

Freya Ledingham's 2nd year project for 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell, is a chicken with a woven chicken head, a four colour bubble knit wrap over cardigan complete with egg pocket, a woven feather skirt over a hoop skirt, with raffia stitched legs and feet. Her design was very much inspired by natural materials and mummer traditions. Photography is by Laurence Winram.

Tomoko Ogawa II

Applique design by Tomoko Ogawa  オガワ トモコ

"I only recently realised that repetition is the best way for me to understand things. I've recently come to think that there are various cycles in this earth, and that repetition is similar to them. "

 

 

This image shared by strange desires is just the best, '1920s clown shoes stuffed with horsehair' on holiday many years ago I bought clown shows for my friends daughter, there is something just wonderful in the madness of them. 

Laura Ter Veer

Laura Ter Veer has created a graduate collection 'Les Filles Du Brouillard', with a phenomenal style of apocalyptic renaissance and displaying all of the patina and distress brilliance that looks like the models have stumbled zombie like out of a classical painting. 

See the accompanying promotional video.

 

Chris Roberts-Antieau

Simply stunning 'Birds of Prey' embroidered silk dress by Michigan-based textile artist Chris Roberts-Antieau.

Mabel Johnson

 

Mabel Johnson makes one of garments inspired by the quilts of Gee’s Bend, the colours and shapes of Paul Klee and Milton Avery paintings, pulling techniques and styles from the past, while at the same time creating a new contemporary story.

Tom's Sons

 

Above: Leon Kalajian

Tom’s Sons International Pleating has been a family-owned fabric and textile pleating business in New York city’s Garment District since 1931. 

“My mother was doing pleating when I was very, very young. Every chance I get, I am in the factory — I was 6 years old. I have to work. I cannot stay at home. I have to do something. I have to be around people. Someday they ask you: ‘When the pleating is not in fashion, what will you do?’ I do pleating! For me it never goes out, the pleating. Every day I can create a new style.” 

Leon Kalajian

                               

George Kalajian (above) is a  master craftsman in New York City’s Garment District, with pleating expertise passed down through five generations. He has collaborated with many prestigious fashion brands and institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dior and film and television productions. He is the current owner of Tom’s Sons International Pleating, established by his grandfather Leon, George oversees every aspect of production, preserving and advancing the art of pleating for future generations.

'Yaghshiye'

 'Yaghshiye', by @loloyaghshi, @syrayaghshi and @zayre_yaghshi, is a stunningly sculptural, culturally rich, talismanic collection drawing from Northern Pakistan's Chitral’s culture and landscape, Yaghshiye reflects the realities of the Hindu Kush: oversized padding, heavy quilting, and cocooning shapes built around protection and survival. Embroidery documents Khow handiwork, honouring Chitral and its indigenous Khow and Gujoor communities.Via @sitara_studios - fan alumni from our diet paratha mentoring programme.