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Craig Lawrence Autumn Winter 2010

Written by Jen Jarvis. Posted on July 27, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. 2 Comments.
Designer / Craig Lawrence About / Lady GaGa loves this collection (http://gagadaily.com/fashion/2010/02/lady-gaga-wearing-craig-lawrence/) and so do I. I’ve written about Craig before…it’s somewhere in the archives so if you’d like any background information search the archive pages. Details / Laddered metallic galore. Extra Information / See Craig’s [...]

Style Sunday

Written by Jen Jarvis. Posted on June 20, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
Jessie Hands at the Chelsea graduate exhibition (which is still going on and open to the public) wearing a Mark Fast dress.

Graduate Fashion Shows & exhibitions 2010

Written by Jen Jarvis. Posted on May 31, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. 1 Comment.
  I’m out of the country whilst most of these shows are going on unfortunately but here’s a list of shows and exhibitions coming up. If you would like to add any dates then leave a comment below/ email me … knitkicks@googlemail.com If you are a knitwear student don’t hesitate to drop [...]

Jooyeon Im

Written by Jen Jarvis. Posted on April 27, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. 4 Comments.
  Designer / Jooyeon Im About / I popped down to London college of Fashion last week and saw Joo’s final collection. Her collection was absolutely beautiful, full of great textured knitted fabrics. Definitely one of the collections that stood out. Collection Information / Her collection was inspired [...]

Street Style Sunday

Written by Jen Jarvis. Posted on April 25, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
Unfortunately I have a habit of right click and saving loads of images, then forgetting where I got them from. So I have no idea where I got this image from. I do however know that the dress is by Matalafria. See more info on Matalafria here: http://www.knitkicks.co.uk/?p=1339

Iben Høej

Written by Jen Jarvis. Posted on April 15, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , . 3 Comments.
Designer / Iben Høej About / Iben Høej graduated with first class honours from the University of Brighton in 1998 and after  worked for Knit1, Studio Fiona Colquhoun and Danish fashion label Bruuns Bazaar. She launched her own collection in 2003 and has had her own label [...]

Shao-Yen Chen

Written by jenjarvis. Posted on February 23, 2010. Filed under Central Saint Martins, Chunky Knit, Fringing, Ruffles, Uncategorized, autumn winter 2010. Tagged . 8 Comments.
This is a bit of a follow up from my last post. This is Shao-Yen Chen’s MA graduate collection as shown on Sunday night. It’s absolutely beautiful and I love all these irregular shapes made from built up fringing. As always I have a mini interview….   I am inspired by HUMAN BODY, MOVEMENT, NATURE, LANDSCAPE. I have interned [...]

Shao-yen Chen

Written by jenjarvis. Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged . 3 Comments.
I would like to introduce you to the next knit genius to come out of the Central Saint Martins fashion machine…Shao-yen Chen. He graduated from the BA fashion knitwear course at CSM back in 2008 and went straight onto the masters. The pictures below are of his beautiful BA collection which featured felted knitting merging [...]

R.I.P

Written by jenjarvis. Posted on February 12, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. 3 Comments.

Knit-1 Brighton

Written by jenjarvis. Posted on January 9, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . 4 Comments.
I don’t normally write posts on fashion schools or education in knitwear but I’ll make an exception this time as I was personally going to apply to this place, but ended up going straight into work. As most the readers of this blog are knit/fashion/textile students, I thought this would be perfect to write about for those of you looking for [...]