Arts Thread

 As a designer, I am constantly inspired by music, my best creative projects have been influenced by music in one way or another, and my graduate collection is no different. I am an experimental creative, I enjoy challenging myself with the designs I come up with and the way I bring them to life, for costumes I use creative pattern cutting and work with me model or mannequin measurements, the shape of the panel piece and pattern paper to draw out the shapes, before toiling in a fabric as close to the real material as possible. This is often a trial-and-error method, however it’s the most interesting, challenging and exciting way of working for me because it’s like putting together a giant puzzle with a lot of maths. This does sometimes mean that I end up with multiple variations of the same panel piece, however, all of those extra panels and scrap pieces of fabric get sewn together with the rest of the deadstock, second hand or scrap fabrics to create the fabric for the final costume.