MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS & ARCHIVES
Hackers: Costumes from the Motion Picture @ The Horse Hospital
Rukus! The UK’s Black Queer Archive housed within the London Metropolitan Archives
National Art Library – housed within the V&A
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The ultimate list of online research resources VOL 2
From the nichest fashion archive to the key fashion suppliers this list has you covered (again!)
The pandemic has fundamentally changed how fashion students are expected to work. Back in April we compiled the ultimate list of online resources to suit our new experience, now, while we exist within this state of limbo between one lockdown and the constant possibility of another, we’ve updated that list. From haberdasheries to the Instagram account compiling ‘fashion for bank robbers’, the new list combines online sites of inspiration with London’s suppliers providing the resources you need to make clothes from conception to completion.
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Fashion Supplies in London
- Woolcrest Textiles – Hackney
- Toni Textiles – Shepherd’s Bush
- MacCulloch & Wallis – Soho
- Cloth House – Camden
- Misan (West) – Shepherd’s Bush
- Misan Fabric – Soho
- Bhopal Textiles – Brick Lane
- Goldbrick Fabrics – Shepherd’s Bush
- Handweavers Studio and Gallery – Holloway
- Unique Fabrics – Shepherd’s Bush
- Knit Works London – Bethnal Green
- London Trimmings Wholesale – Whitechapel and Tottenham
- Barnett Lawson – Marylebone
- DM Buttons & Buttonholes – Soho
- V V Rouleaux – Marylebone
- London Bead Co. – Kentish Town
- Alec Trianti (Sculpting Tools) – Fitzrovia
- Rosamanda Pleaters – Tottenham
- LaserCut Works – Bermondsey
- Pentonville Foam and Rubber Products – Islington
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Jaden Cho on Non-objects
The South Korean designer wants to redefine the role of couture in modern society
Laura Tanzer: Why storytelling makes design irrelevant
Laura Tanzer calls for a change in fashion education
Yamil Arbaje: Clothing as the Personal and Political
The Latin American designer merged personal and political history for his graduate collection, looking to working class aesthetics from his home country in the 1960s
Joe Pearson presents Five Archetypal Men in One Collection
His work explores notions of masculinity that range from the elegant yet nonchalant appearance of the dandy to Mr Pearl’s corsets to the traditional businessman’s suit
Karen Heshi: “Why must a suit look like a suit?”
The designer reflects on the tension between functionality and identification in her graduate collections.
Domenic Roylance: countering the doom and gloom of 2020
An uplifting collection designed as a reaction to this year’s ongoing hardships
Davina Amajor on multi-functional garments and overlooked materials
With her BA collection ‘90 Degrees’, Davina set out to recover the functionality and aesthetic value of worn fabrics that were once undesired, in order to prevent them from being disposed of
1 Granary
Magazine Issue 6
With unprecedented honesty and depth, 1 Granary Issue 6 dives into the work and lives of fashion designers today. As a response to the construction of desire and personality cults that govern our industry, the magazine steps away from the conventional profiles and editorials, focussing instead on raw work and anonymous, unfiltered testimonies. For the first time ever, readers are given a truthful insight into the process, dreams, fears, hardships, and struggles of today’s creatives.