Ella Watts
Fashion BA
Leeds Arts University
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Apparel / Accessories / Textiles
My location: London, United Kingdom
Ella Watts
First Name: Ella
Last Name: Watts
University / College: Leeds Arts University
Course / Program: Fashion BA
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Apparel / Accessories / Textiles
My Location: London, United Kingdom
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About
Ella Watts is a fashion designer who specialises in conceptual design. Her passion for print and textiles is often utilised as a starting point for draping and collage. Whilst studying she spoke at the Student Sustainability Research Conference 2024.Her 2025 Graduate Collection encompasses futuristic growth through sharp cubes and sculptural curves that obscure and reveal the form intermittently. The relationship with the natural and the manmade, past and future these opposites are explored in parallel and their synthesis discovered. The new future is found through excavation of our current lives interconnected with the earth’s natural past.
After looking into rocks and crystals (inspired by Arsham’s work) the reoccurring supernatural cube shapes were inspired by the naturally formed cubic crystals of Pyrite. The perfect cubes nestled in natural rock built the foundation of the collection as a harmony between the structure and free form. This inspired the approach to the pattern cutting of the collection a mixture of flat, 3D and draping to create a harmonious mixture of traditionally opposing shapes. She explores the visual tension between the geological and geometric.
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