Street Style

Written by Jen Jarvis. Filed under Street style. 1 Comment.
A new addition to KnitKicks will be street style photography. Hopefully if luck is on my side I will actually have a camera on me if I spot someone wearing some interesting knitwear. If not then I’ll share pictures from street style blogs which I have come across. This will be a weekly thing. First up [...]

Iben Høej

Written by Jen Jarvis. 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 [...]

Mark Fast Autumn Winter 2010

Written by Jen Jarvis. Filed under Crochet, Embellished Knit, Ladders, Ruffles, autumn winter 2010, ribbing. 1 Comment.
Sorry for the long gap between posts, I was …a) very busy and b) trying to figure out what to do with this website to make it easier to keep it updated. I’m going to make the posts much simpler, so I don’t feel panicked about having to write a whole bunch of stuff that [...]

BARBARA Í GONGINI

Written by Jen Jarvis. Filed under Chunky Knit, Coated Knits, Loose Knit, autumn winter 2010. 3 Comments.
This is the Autumn winter 2010/11 collection of BARBARA Í GONGINI, a Nordic brand based in Denmark. The designer behind the brand (Barbara) graduated in 1996 from Denmark’s Designskole, Institute of Unica Design. The aim of this brand is to create Nordic clothing based on a conceptual approach, where experiments with different forms provide the visual motive in the [...]

KNITKICKS.CO.UK

Written by Jen Jarvis. Filed under De Montfort University, Embellished Knit. No comments.
Ok, so everything has moved over toknitkicks.co.uk ….so please please please spread the word and update your feeds/links. The whole website is a bit of a mess so bare with me whilst I sort it out. Nothing will be posted on the old wordpress account so if you don’t update your links to knitkicks.co.uk you [...]

Tim Ryan

Written by jenjarvis. Filed under Autumn Winter 2009-10, Fringing, Ladders. Tagged . 6 Comments.
Just a quick one to show you all teh latest collection from Tim Ryan. Links: http://www.timryanknitwear.com/ http://knitkicks.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/tim-ryan-autumn-winter-2009/ http://knitkicks.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/tim-ryan-knitwear/

Shao-Yen Chen

Written by jenjarvis. 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. 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 [...]

Steven Oo

Written by jenjarvis. Filed under Chunky Knit, Hand Knit, autumn winter 2010, ribbing. 5 Comments.
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 [...]

R.I.P

Written by jenjarvis. Filed under Uncategorized. 3 Comments.