Category Archives: Hand Knit
Steven Oo
It’s not often that I post the entire line up from a graduate collection but I just love Steven Oo’s work as shown as part of the Academy of Arts show at New York fashion week 2010. Originating from Yangon, Myanmar he has just graduated from Fashion and Knitwear design. The collection is made [...]
Andrew Yates
As I’m ill off work today I thought I’d take the time to update this place. So..the following work is by another one of my work mates, this time it’s Andrew Yates. He graduated from Central Saint Martins back in 2008 and went on to work in Australia up until about June this year.
He worked [...]
Craig Lawrence Spring/Summer 2010
This season he has gone plastic and sparkly galore. Using red and white plastic tape to knit up voluminous and unusual garments inspired by the great British rainy summer, 3D crochet and royal court jesters.
When I went to check up on what he created for this season I stumbled upon this link: http://www.chateaudegateau.com/ which [...]
Tim Ryan Autumn Winter 2009
I was browsing the old pages of Fashion 156 and remembered this image (see above) of Tim Ryan’s knitwear. I hadn’t actually seen any other pictures from his Autumn Winter collection yet….so I googled to see if there was anything else roaming around the Internet. I was pleasantly surprised to find he had gone big [...]
Class of 2009
This is just a quick recap of the knitwear graduates 2009. Click on the below pictures to go to each designers interview.
I’ve just got to say that there has been such an immense amount of talent this year and it was really inspiring to look through everyones collections. If this doesn’t inspire the next batch of graduates [...]
Phoebe English
Phoebe English, 23. Central St Martins
Your Design Background:
Internships at John Galliano, Paris, Diane Von Furstenburg, New York. Employment under the corsetier Mr Pearl.
What was the concept behind your collection?
It was based on the Symbolist, Max Klingers series of etchings called, ‘the paraphrase of the finding of the glove,’ they are works which depict a dreamlike [...]
Sarah Benning
Sarah Benning, 24. University of Westminster
Your Design Background:
I took a year out before my final year and worked for Christopher Kane, have been there during every show since his second show. Also worked at COS within the pattern cutting team.
What was the concept behind your collection?
It all revolved around the body which I’m sure is an [...]
Igor Galas
Recently Igor Galas was selected among 10,000 young designers to be in the final 30 for the Hempel Award at China Fashion Week. Unfortunately he lost out to Chen Jiawei, but the fact that he could be selected out of so many candidates to show at this prestigious award tells us that he is clearly [...]
Ring my bell
This is part one of two posts. I would do it all in one but it would take up the whole bloody page if i did! Don’t worry, you’ll only have to wait until Friday!
Quirky British designer Emma Bell has shown her collections at London fashion week with Vauxhall Fashion Scout a fair few times [...]
Jillian Carrozza