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 our homes make us whole. They create comfort and hold nostalgia and memories of the past. Our homes are an extension of ourselves and the place we feel most comfortable. The project explores what is used to create a homely feel to create comfort as well as nostalgic memories I hold onto of a previous home I grew up in, reinforcing how houses can contain the past. It also looks at the idea of the items in your home being over-loved, worn-down and mended, showing the appreciation for the items we own. “Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories” - Imogen Racz, Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday.