Since finishing the Next Menswear competition, I have been working on my next project ‘innovation’. This is an individual project to prepare us for our final year collections, and the aim is to push the boundaries in concept, design, pattern cutting and manufacture.
My project is named ‘Touch’. This is because the concept for my project is the Humans Psychological Need to Touch The World Around Them. I would like to create tactile clothing which feels as good to touch as it looks. I will create tactile clothing by using material processes which are interesting to touch, and fabrics which feel comfortable against the body. This will give my clothing more emotional durability because the wearer will feel sentimentality towards their clothing. This will hopefully minimalize the need to constantly buy new clothes, fuelling fast fashion. Since starting this project, I have investigated many areas of touch such as: tactile artists, household germs that we touch, thermochromic paints, touch within nature and the science behind touch. From this research I have created material processes which represent the imagery and used this to inform my design development. I have also used my research to inform my colour palette: Grey tones and accent colours of orange and blue. From this I have designed a 6-outfit capsule collection and begun to work on my first toile for my outerwear piece- in this project we must make one outfit consisting of 3 pieces. Thanks for reading, Issy
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I received some very exciting news in February: this summer I will be spending 10 weeks in New York working as a menswear purple label designer at Ralph Lauren! It was a very lengthy process to achieve this internship, starting with an initial interview in November, portfolio reviews, and an additional video interview. I was overjoyed when I found out I had been offered the internship. Only 5 people from outside of the United States were offered the internship, and 1330 people applied! I also feel extremely lucky that it is a paid internship, as often fashion design internships can be exploitative and unpaid due the high demand for experience.
Since accepting the internship, I have sorted out my flights and accommodation, so now all there is to do is wait! I am extremely excited to start, especially as I have been made to feel so welcome by the Ralph Lauren employees that I have been in contact with. Here is a link to an article written by Nottingham Trent University about my success in achieving the Ralph Lauren Summer Internship: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2019/03/fashion-design-student-selected-for-prestigious-ralph-lauren-internship?fbclid=IwAR1v8CgsozEU6vO0GktkMliPAEUqGw9CvlpMcuGa47ElGGYfXVvx8RCvlz0 Thanks for reading, Issy Following our final presentation to Next, we had one final hand in before we had finished the project. As a team we worked hard on finalising our project, and handed in a sketchbook, market research report, look-book, video and 4 outfit collection we were really pleased with.
Our catwalk show for this project was also extremely successful. Each collection looked great and everyone was proud at the end of it. Our team ‘Mugen’ were especially pleased at the end of the catwalk, because it was announced by the menswear designer at Next that we had won the competition! This means that we have been awarded internships and mentoring which we are so excited to undertake. Additionally, to this Next would like to buy our print which we featured on our collection, which we never expected and are so proud of. Here is an article about our success with Next written by Nottingham Trent University: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2019/02/fashion-design-students-impress-in-challenging-live-project-set-by-next2 Thanks for reading, I have attached a photo of my team when we found out we had won! Issy |
Issy HamblyThird year fashion design student at Nottingham Trent University. Archives
February 2020
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