Blinkered is a sustainable unisex fashion collection inspired by Japanese art-form Kintsugi as a manifestation of Japanese approach Wabi Sabi; an aesthetic appreciation for all things impermanent. I use a range of gold embellishments and embroidery and second hand materials throughout my designs to nod to Kintsugi; an art form that traditionally mends broken ceramics with gold to celebrate the impermanence of the object. Horse blinkers and falconry masks also informed silhouette and introduced the use of dead-stock leather to represent the technological human blinker our phones have become.
Look 1 - Part I: Horse Shoe Jacket and Broken is Beautiful Trousers (hand-dyed denim blue cotton twill). Cyanotype print in collaboration with photography student Ben Stezaker.
Look 1 - Part II: Horse Shoe Jacket and Broken is Beautiful Trousers (hand-dyed denim blue cotton twill). Cyanotype print in collaboration with photography student Ben Stezaker.
Look 2 - Part I: Patchwork Shirt (patchwork second hand shirting) and Masked Skirt (dead- stock saddlery leather)
Look 2 - Part II: Patchwork Shirt (patchwork second hand shirting) and Masked Skirt (dead- stock saddlery leather)
Look 3 - Part I: Falconry T-Shirt (Dead-stock patchwork leather) and Sashiko Trousers (repurposed weave samples from collaboration and second hand indigo dyed fabrics)
Look 3 - Part II: Falconry T-Shirt (Dead-stock patchwork leather)
Look 4 - Part I: Blinkered Dress (Indigo blue and white weave with recycled gold polyester accents designed and created through collaboration with weave student Joseph Humphries)
Look 4 - Part II: Blinkered Dress (Indigo blue and white weave with recycled gold polyester accents designed and created through collaboration with weave student Joseph Humphries)
