This collection is a direct response to the sustainability issues facing the fashion industry today.

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The main source of inspiration for my collection came from the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, who has been a favourite artist of mine for years. I have admired his work for as far back as I can remember and it has a played a huge part in shaping my aesthetic style. When I took part in the ERASMUS exchange in my third year, I spent a lot of time in Paris. I visited galleries like “Centre Pompidou”, where I was able to go and see Kandinsky’s work regularly and those fond memories became the impetus for this collection.

I used Kandinsky’s form abstraction as a motivation to create prints which communicate the sustainability issues within the fashion industry today. Whilst every era in history faces its own challenges and difficulties, the threat of climate change is a uniquely 21st century problem, and there is much we can learn from the way that our predecessors used art and creativity to further activism and ideology.

Every piece in my collection is made from up-cycled materials, such as bed sheets, table cloths and towels, that would otherwise be sent to landfill. It was important to me to address the sustainability issues that I had researched within the production of my own collection and is why I chose to keep true to that in every decision. In the form of natural dying methods, hand painting and innovative fabric manipulation techniques, colour and shape are used as forms of expression to challenge reality as Kandinsky himself did in his own “composition” series.

Working from home throughout the production of this collection pushed me to experiment and changed the way I approached my design process. I did more sampling and toiling than ever before, and found new ways to do things without being able to rely on the tools of the studio. As so often happens, creativity is born out of limitation, and my collection illustrates that entirely. 

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