Lucy Chapman
Lucy designs garments and accessories using vintage fabrics, exquisite hand crafted details and delicate embroidery. She initially studied fashion design at St Martin’s College of Art in London, working for a number of London designers before running her own market stall in Spitalfields market. Having now returned to her hometown of Liverpool, Lucy continues to produce and market her range of womenswear and childrenswear. Her work for the exhibition showcases the classic feminine qualities of cotton.
Sara Li-Chou Han
Sara Li-Chou Han is a Liverpool based fashion designer who has trained in pattern cutting and garment manufacture. Sara uses modern fabrics and finishes to create urban street wear that combines 80’s and 90’s styling with classic 40’s and 50’s silhouettes. Sara’s piece in the exhibition is constructed using waterproof cotton, reflecting her contemporary and classic influences, creating a look that is simultaneously retro and futuristic.
Christina Dixon
Christina Dixon is a product designer based in Northumbria. Her contemporary tea cosies reconnect people to the sense of comfort and community associated with tea drinking. Sharing a pot of tea is part of our heritage and is central to our national identity. Through her designs Christina aims to dispose of ‘takeaway tea’ culture and restore the benefits of communal tea drinking. This range of tea cosies creates the ideal drinking experience for every type of tea drinker, encouraging people to slow down and appreciate both tea drinking and its preparation.
Stephenson Stephenson
Stephenson Stephenson consists of twin sisters; Katie and Laura Stephenson, who specialise in hand-crafted garments and accessories using cotton yarn. They create both specially commissioned pieces as well as stocking a range of garments in Liverpool based boutique, Landbaby. They take inspiration from personal gifts, plaiting, interweaving and traditional handcrafts, focusing on creative yarn combinations. This piece has quirky and romantic elements with sweet details, creating an entirely unique style of womenswear.
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Flowers From Trevor
Kate Foster and Holly Cooke met whilst studying costume design in Liverpool and have been creating accessories, garments and home products for their company, Flowers From Trevor ever since. Whilst creating exquisite garments such as dresses and corsets that echo their love of costume, they also specialise in soft furnishings, creating sumptuous cushions and wall hangings for the home.
The duo considers the natural purity and delicacy of cotton an ideal medium to portray their timeless designs.
Carol Ryder
A freelance Fashion and Textile Designer and Illustrator with 20 years experience in the fashion industry, Carol also works as a senior lecturer in fashion design at Liverpool John Moores University. The work produced specifically for the Cotton exhibition consists of figurative illustration work rendered in embroidery on a cotton ‘canvas’, a translation of her practised techniques of ink, collage and multi-media on paper. Her work is driven by her interest in the way the human figure is represented within the broad scope of fashion and textile design, and how this representation shifts and changes in accordance with parallel shifts in society.
Jenine Postlethwaite
Jenine is a fashion designer who works with cotton and jersey fabrics.
She has recently graduated from Liverpool John Moores University and showcased her work at the 2006 graduate fashion show which is currently on display in this exhibition. Her exhibition piece contrasts light cotton jersey and chiffon with bolder materials like PVC. Aimed to be both wearable and commercial, her current collection consists of a number of circular patterns which represent freedom within the clothes. Drawing inspiration from the art world, Jenine’s influences range from a number of sources, including a circular structure used by installation artist Rebecca Horn.
Claire Fyvie
Claire studied Fashion design at Liverpool John Moores University, specialising in female sportswear design. Her bold, fresh and unique designs are captured in eye-catching colours using sports performance fabrics. She combines practical and kitsch styles to create masculine shapes with a feminine edge. Her piece for the exhibition is a vibrant blue cotton dress that captures her own unique style and exhibits the casual movement and elegance of cotton.
Amy De Nobriga
Amy is a Liverpool Based freelance illustrator, recently graduating in Graphic Arts from Liverpool John Moores University. Predominately consisting of painting and sculpture, her work focuses on character design, narrative composition and portraiture. The model, Amy appearing in the exhibition, realised using cotton, was originally conceived a part of a larger collaborative project with U.K. disability organization, Scope. The character of Amy is a mute figure who communicates with others using only a tin whistle. Originally designed to represent disability in children’s literature, she is taken from a story originally written by the artist.
Anne Liddell
Anne Liddell has worked as a freelance textile designer/maker for theatre, gallery and fashion textile design. Her current work, a collection of portable textile collages, can be utilised as containers or viewed as artefacts. These cotton fabric bags carry original imagery that draws on both personal and collective memory. The pieces refer to historical and traditional printed and stitched textile practices. They fuse homespun, far-flung and contemporary influences, reminiscent of Victorian mementoes, keepsakes, curious souvenirs and childhood memorabilia.
Matthew Moore
Matthew Moore is a product designer who has used cotton to add an adaptive element to his innovative lifestyle furniture, creating objects that intrigue and invite the viewer to investigate further. This lamp/table was created with a number of factors in mind including user interaction, distribution, storage and construction. The design of this product allows all of these activities to take place with minimal effort. This versatile product can be easily adapted to suit different tastes by using alternate cotton faced table top and lamp “shade” pieces that are interchangeable. The different styles of cotton panels allow the user a choice of colours and patterns to create their own combination.
SixtyEight Design
SixtyEight Design is a design consultancy located within the Liverpool School or Art and Design. Their diverse team of professional designers offer a broad range of creative skills and services including product, graphic, fashion, textile, exhibition and interior design. Their multi-disciplinary nature reaches beyond traditional boundaries, creating a consultancy that is unique in its approach. On display in the exhibition are a selection of textile prints and customised baby clothing, recently marketed at the 2007 Indigo Trade Fair in Paris. Following colour and print trends for Autumn/Winter 2008, these exquisitely printed and embellished garments are both fresh and unique.
