Estelle Brightmore
Fashion Design BA (Hons)
De Montfort University
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Womenswear / Apparel / Textiles - Knit
My location: Leicester, United Kingdom
Estelle Brightmore
First Name: Estelle
Last Name: Brightmore
University / College: De Montfort University
Course / Program: Fashion Design BA (Hons)
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Womenswear / Apparel / Textiles - Knit
My Location: Leicester, United Kingdom
About
As an ambitious final year fashion design student specialising in knitwear, I am intrigued in the experimental process through using a variety of yarns and machinery to create unique effects within knitted fabric. I am also passionate about how these can then be used within garments to create designs that stand out and modernise knitwear.
This project is about how memories fade and distort over time and how they often feel like a dream, as if they never happened. It focuses on when my Granny lived in Norfolk, looking into the nostalgia of having holidays there and the interiors of her house with a 1970s feel. In order to demonstrate this concept through knit, I have distorted knitwear into unusual shapes. I have done this by using boning to defy the abilities of knitted fabrics, taking inspiration from florals and lampshades in a warped way.