Graduate Collection

  • Alice fayle
My graduate collection shown at Graduate Fashion Week 2012 and nominated for the David Band textiles award. The collection named 'I can't go back to yesterday' is based around the ideas of ageing and childhood fantasies that are worn down over time by the realisation of growing up. I created digital fabric prints out of drawings of animals and monsters that were fantasies imagined by the young girl and worked into the surface design using devoré and ageing techniques. I also used pressed flowers and taxidermy moths to create colours and textures that were developed using CAD and digitally printed onto the cloth. I pattern cut shapes to fit my brief and sewed the silk garments into individual pieces that together tell a story.