Lesley Dill

Lesley Dill's Dada poetry wedding dress made for the Dada ball in New York, a paper dress of words for performance. The words and language a powerful catalyst on the vehicle of costume for emotional dialogues about,life and death. Lesley Dill is an American photographer, sculptor, artist, performer and costume maker who throughout all of her mediums and creative endeavours uses language;

"language is the touchstone , the pivot point of all my work."

"I wanted to talk about our era of Aids and also the theme of the Dada Ball by using the metaphor of a woman wearing a dress. The idea was inspired by Duchamp’s “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even”. The dress is a brown paper dress painted white and stamped with the words of the Emily Dickinson poem, “The Soul Has Bandaged Moments”. I chose a virginal white dress as a reminder of the many women who are HIV positive, and as a symbol of the incredible loss of innocence that awareness of early morality has brought us."  Lesley Dill

Irina Dzhus II

Irina Dzhus established her label DZHUS in 2010 this is her AW 2015 'Totalitarium' collection inspired by industrial age architecture is a harsh, monochrome reaction to a harsh environment, but it beautifully reflects the geometry and cool modernism of the structures it is developed from, free from ornamation and frivolous unnecessary embellishment.

"Creating a collection's concept has always been the most exciting process for me. I'm inspired by trying my best to embody their characteristic features and principles of objects in the silhouettes of my designs." Irina Dzhus

Greg Lauren I

Greg Lauren's clothes are akin to a ragbag of distressed clothes mashed together in a piratical elegance of comfort with the patina of loved clothing. These examples are from his SS15 collection.

Ignacia Zordan

Ignacia Zordan is a Chilean Italian designer based in Paris who creates limited edition collections here are some of her SS2015 collection.

“Fashion, to me is a form of expression no different from other forms of art. A social tool; it’s about matching your inside to your outside, it’s attitude and confidence to approach life. Just like building a house for your spirit.” Ignacia Zordan

Vladimir Dunjic

Fantastic fabric and pattern rendition from Serbian painter Vladimir Dunjic from his series called veils.

Motoguo

 This is a surreal collection and campaign by Motoguo that reminds me of  Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka  in the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
What I love about Motogue is the incredible engineered fabric details and the almost graphic design of feature components. Moto Guo is a young Malaysian designer who graduated from Raffles College of Higher Education in 2013 his work is new distinctive and highly original.

Lola Dupré II

I love the fun that Lola Dupré has with her collages, but also the way that this medium enables you so quickly to explore different silhouettes, textures, colours etc perfect for developing fashion and costume designs.