Alice Riley is a confident, evolving designer who comes from a textiles background. Since discovering her love for texture, her passion and flare for creative fabrics is continuously advancing. She started her journey by creating tactile surfaces through multimedia and, loving fabric construction, pursued a degree in Fashion Knitwear and Knitted Textiles. After a year of designing for two commercial brands in New York, Alice has developed skills in designing creative pieces in an industrial environment, both for high street and ready to wear brands.
‘Urban Jungle’ is an innovative menswear collection for Autumn Winter 2020, driven primarily by New York’s architecture. The overall layers within the city which describe the “condense chaos” aesthetic, inspired by geometric patterns and layering within the city. She utilises unconventional industrial materials to define the conflict between material qualities found within architecture. Additionally, the juxtaposition of materials illuminates the range of 3D and 2D aspects to her designs as she combines structural silhouettes.
Alice’s aims for her collection were to demonstrate knitwear in a structural and fluid aesthetic, playing on both structure through drape to create strong impactful silhouettes. Furthermore, responding to the urban environment in an innovative and sustainable way through upcycling industrial materials such as rubber and plastic cording depicts the matt, shiny and waterproof surface qualities within the concept. Additionally, she contrasts the overall surface quality of the industrial materials to selected knit structures. Overall responding and highlighting the many layer of shapes, marks and weights discovered within architectural infrastructure, empathising the overall condense chaos the urban environment holds.
Alice loves the fast pace chaos of the design industry and would love to go back to a knitwear design team of a ready to wear brand, or possibly study for an MA, specialising in menswear.
Projects
- Urban Jungle‘Urban Jungle’ is an innovative men’s knitwear collection for Autumn Winter 2020, driven primarily by New York’s architecture and the experience of living and working in New York. The overall aesthetic of this collection describes the “condense chaos”, created by the geometric patterns and contrasting layers within this dramatic cityscape. The exciting contrast between material qualities found within architecture has inspired the combination of unconventional industrial materials with the tactil
Projects credited in
- Meet the GFF 2020 Digital Fashion Portfolio Award NomineesThe Digital Fashion Portfolio Award will be given to a well-executed, contemporary and professionally presented digital fashion portfolio that demonstrates an individual and creative identity, whilst communicating a thinking process from the concept ideas, through their development to the final presentation and layout. Meet the nominees!24
Work history
Fashion Design InternMarc Jacobs
- New York, United StatesInternship
Being a part of the knitwear resort collection, I experienced working within a Ready to Wear brand, developing skills within swatching through sourcing materials, trims and additional embroidery details. As well as assisting on research boards through trend analysis for meetings. Furthermore, creating CADS, sketching, specing and helping within fit meetings.
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Fashion Design InternLi and Fung
- New York, United StatesInternship
Within this placement I was part of the design teams for Walmart Missy, Plus size as well as assisting on the Target accounts, Project London Juniors and Cat and Jack kids. Within the 6 months I used WGSN to find trends which influenced the design processes, through sketch, creating CADS, tech packs and layouts to be sent to the factories overseas to produce the designs for the upcoming season.
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Skills
- Pattern Cutting
- Dubied Knitting
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Fashion Knitwear
- Textiles Design
- Consumer Trends
- Trend Analysis
- CAD Drawings
- Garment Construction
- Garment Design
Education
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Fashion Knitwear and Knitted Textile DesignNottingham Trent University
- Nottingham, United Kingdom