Laura Jelf ?
Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles student with a years industrial placement. Graduating July 2012.
A strong determined and driven designer, creativley minded and experienced with designing in both womenswear and menswear. A passion for colour, structure, silhouette and texture drives me to reinvent classic styles to modern pieces. The unusual and alternative Read More...
Sound in Waves, Words in Texture
Single garment project exploring Braille, and the concept of words and messgaes translated through texture. Written text becomes secondary to communication in texture and colour coded symbolism, the world is seen through touch not sight. Conc
Vintage Beach
Abercrombie and Fitch brief to create a knitwear range for an Autumn/Winter within their Hollister brand. Taking inspiration from the vintage surf lifestyle and the history of navajo textiles in californian culture, I developed a broad range
TRAPPED NERVE
A collection based on the breakdown and control the nervous system has on modern lives. Taking direct inspiration from cell shapes and lines of movement through the body i found the system worked from central focus points of the brain and spi
TRAPPED NERVE
Each garment carries a symbolic representation of the nervous system either within silhouette or technique. Restirctive arm holes, pinning the arms and upper body in position represent the restriction created when nervous communication breaks down. cellular patterns, and light relfective yarns emulate the ever changing and constant evolving biology of the nerouvs system.
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