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Leonard Hill
Fashion Design BFA

Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design

Graduates: 2022

Specialisms: Womenswear / Fashion Technology / Sustainable Fashion/Textiles

My location: Auckland, New Zealand

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Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design

Leonard Hill

leonard-hill ArtsThread Profile

First Name: Leonard

Last Name: Hill

University / College: Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design

Course / Program: Fashion Design BFA

Graduates: 2022

Specialisms: Womenswear / Fashion Technology / Sustainable Fashion/Textiles

My Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Website: Click To See Website

About

Leonard Hill is a multi-disciplinary designer whose works have been inquiries into the body and possible relationships with technology. Starting with the idea of hybrid and chimeric forms, he looks further to ask questions about the types of relationships available between body and technology, and what those relationships infer about the human condition.A maker first and foremost, he finds great value within the physical process of pattern making, fitting and constructing, often gear switching between 'technician', and 'story teller'.

Laughing Gas asks questions about fashion’s relationship to technology, the current global climate crisis, the body, and new materiality. By blurring the lines between the body and machine, it suggests new relationships between form and functionality, suggestive of modern anxieties surrounding technology’s simultaneous responsibility for the climate crisis and its possibilities to provide new solutions. Concerned with notions of hybridity, Leonard Hill seeks to delve further into the types of relationships the body has with modification, to create discussions about the implications of machinic augmentation.