Fashion creative specialising in womenswear who regards her practise as an intersection between dressmaking and styling. Also with a keen interest in sustainability, ethics and fabric. I am confident in adobe illustrator and can produce SPECs and tech packs. My additional skills include concept development, print design, layout design, tailoring, trend forecasting and fashion research.
I am open to opportunities or available for freelance work within fashion design, production, styling and art direction. Please feel free to contact me to see my portfolio.
nadia.r.hodges@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-hodges-6b8664169/
Projects
- Charles Jeffrey Live briefI have designed a collection for the 'Charles Jeffrey Loverboy' x British Fashion Council competition based around the concept of 'The Dressing-up box'. Inspired by the playfulness and freedom of children playing different characters and alter egos in an eclectic way with what they have to hand. Silhouettes were inspired by both the exaggerated shapes of children wearing adult clothes and the opposite of those pieces treasured and held onto long after they fit appropriately. Details were pulled
- OVER-EXPOSED Graduate CollectionInspired by the confidence and power of Victorian women defying social expectations by wearing men’s suits. It explores modesty and sexuality, femininity and androgyny and incorporating all these aspects into silhouettes that represent the modern concept of femininity. Colour stories and original prints were developed from the organic damage on 1900s daguerreotype photography. The title of the collection relates back to that whilst also taking ownership of the phrases used to put down women abou