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hide alisa lomax / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – MEng Design Engineering / Imperial College London Brink Of The Body I wanted to challenge our recognition of the human form. We are exposed to hundreds of images of bodies everyday and see potentially thousands of people. The body is something we feel very safe in our knowledge of. We know our own bodies. We know what they look like and what they do. This piece shrouds the wearer and restricts movement. Holes in it allow a variety of positions and interactions. I achieved a rigid form that remains light and translucent by wetting and pleating millinery buckram.
heartbreak olivia love / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – tbc Unromanticised Love My theme is not about fairy-tale happy ever afters, but the damage caused by the breakdown of a relationship. The headpiece is a jawbone made of steel. This represents the weight of loss that we carry after a breakup. It conceals the eyes to hide away the person in mourning. The black veil is embroidered with lines from interviews describing experiences of heartbreak. The birds wing skeleton on top is a symbol of hope; the purity of love breaking free from the shadowing of the veil. The white feathers of a dove are burnt, reminding us of a phoenix that rises from the ashes.
reflect
kar yan luk / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Reality Of Fairy Tales The design is a contemporary and modern mirror neck piece that produces multiple reflections. It is unable to reflect a complete face, but partial features instead, therefore a single object will receive different versions of reflection. The processes used were cutting and sewing of leather plus shaping and assembling of the acrylic mirror surface. A femme fatale who is seductive, attractive and dangerous is targeted. The major characteristics are the unfinished edges and the scratches on the mirror that were created in the hope of pointing out the reality of people sugar-coating the depressing truth.
in-between
tahira mahmood / jewellery footwear Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / and fashion Central Saint Martins accessories The Art of the In-between How do people respond to the stages of their life, where they are in-between the used-to-be, the no-longer and what is to come? This is often looked upon as a waiting space. But is it a waiting space or something with its own characteristics? Liminal space carries with it a sense of ultimate uncertainty. It is where we prepare ourselves to move across the limits of what we were into what we are to be. My collection of work focuses on the gesture of pointing, as a means of guiding an individual through the unknown and the uncharted, to experience the unbelievable.
blemish grace miell / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Blemish My project revolves around skin, imperfections and growth. I have created gloves to show the view of someone suffering from dermatillomania (an impulse control disorder) otherwise known as a skin-picking disorder. My gloves create a physical barrier for the wearer to prevent any picking. And for a non-sufferer show the temptation to touch and potentially remove bumps on the skin. This embroidered body piece looks at imperfections caused by change in pigmentation, scarring, birthmarks etc. I aim to show the beauty within blemishes and marks on the body as many signal growth, recovery and genetics and are not something to be hidden. Constructed from latex, thread and glue. Processes include embroidery, moulding and glue experimentation.
mortality
karina nepali / jewellery Progression – BDes (Hons) and Metal Design / footwear Jewellery University of Dundee and fashion Awareness of Mortality accessories I have explored mourning rituals
that aim to achieve spiritual existence after death, and other ceremonies that embrace the transient nature of life such as the Buddhist destruction of sand mandalas. My design leaves a temporary indentation on the skin, symbolising fleeting moments and the impermanence of our souls. I have created arm pieces using folded copper strips, signifying mandalas. Encasing the curved metalwork are soldered rings, attached to an adjustable leather arm strap. The copper was coated with soldering fluid to produce a rustic finish. The design is wearable for all, as we universally share a consciousness of death.
balance sirui ning / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Hope My project theme is based on today’s inequalities between men and women, and the hope that in the future the situation could be improved. For my final outcome, there are two bangles connected by two pipes, which is like a track, with a ball running on it. It is to be worn by a man and a woman attaching it to their ankles; they need to cooperate to keep the ball on track, especially when they walk . They need to keep the same pace, which symbolises my wish for the future. I have used plaster and plastic in my work, and also magnets for the flexibility of the bangles.
shock niamh o’sullivan / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Shot At Dawn This piece was designed for the soldiers killed for desertion as a result of suffering from PTSD. The geometric shapes were used symbolically to juxtapose the discipline of the military with the prejudice and ignorance towards shell shock victims during WWI, when the illness wasn’t yet recognised. Lions are etched on the copper surface to proclaim the wearer as the brave and courageous soldiers that they were. The colours of the copper reflect the pain and blood shed in the war which caused so many to suffer from shell shock.
combine
xiaozining linzee qi / jewellery footwear Progression – BA (Hons) Fashion Pattern Cutting / and fashion London College of Fashion accessories Retrogressive World Technology nowadays is progressing at a rapid pace. People are constantly focusing and talking about the future and what that may entail. The invention of the water wheel to produce energy may be a distant memory but the cyclical shape is used by many architects to design various objects, with staircases being an obvious one. My final piece comprises two curved shapes combining together the past and the future. The materials used, including the dry pottery flowers represent the fossil past whereas the glass wax with its shining look provide a glossy future view. The white oil paint colour surface covered with glass wax looks like we have forgotten the very valuable and meaningful past.
augment kieren radford / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Fashion: Fashion Design Menswear / Central Saint Martins The Underclass of the Future My project explores the use of technology to enhance and augment the human body, and what advances in this field could imply. The design is inspired by shapes found in the ribcage, responsible for protecting most of our vital organs. The piece is made of steel rods and aluminium plates, coloured using metal primer and spray paint. The shoulder piece can be worn in two ways, representing the possible uses for this technology. One way shows a defensive stance by increasing protection of the head, the other an offensive stance with outward facing talons.
flotsam imogen spilsbury / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Evolution and Extinction The focus for my project is the human destruction of nature. I scoured beaches for man-made objects which had been discarded by humans and spat out by nature. I have transformed a piece of recovered waste into a desirable piece of jewellery, by casting it in resin, halting its decomposition. The skull has gone on a journey from beauty to death, and back to beauty again. I found my final piece object on a Thames beach on the Southbank. Although I can’t be sure of the materials in my found artefact, I presume that it is multiple layers of paint from the hull of a ship.
lure miri tamenaga / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Covert-Aggression I explored the essence of covert aggressive personalities; in which some may appear amiable, but beneath their civil façade, aggressive behaviours exists. This leads to hostile intent which they use to abuse and exploit others. I worked with millinery buckram as my material, which forms the moulded shapes for my piece. I have guided the wet buckram using the base of the female body to help form the outline of the work, then let it set for it to have its permanency. This statement piece focuses on displaying the outline of the meaning of hidden and deceiving aggression, further emphasising the notion of subtle dominance, control and hidden ambition.
lunar
haruka terashima / jewellery footwear Progression – tbc and fashion Lunar Mythology accessories
The title of my project takes its roots in Buddhist history. There is an ancient myth that states that rabbits exist on the moon. It is believed the moon is related to women since long ago and Luna is a Goddess, so I made the shape look like a woman’s body shape. I have produced a headpiece which is worn between chin and collarbone and connects round the back of the neck, before coming around to the front again. When the person wearing it looks up at the moon, their chin pokes out, and the headgear loops around on itself to represent repetition. The surface shows three sections with graphics of degeneration and death by using a variety of technical materials. This was mostly produced by hand.
immerse donglin tian / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – Gap Year Immersive Experience Immersive experience never leaves in a small room, people received different circumstances through interacting with other individuals and composed the unpredictable consequences in an environment. The environment becomes the playground and person become the visitors to observe the changes of environment, which explain the relation of objects and the human body and just like the idea of jewellery. The reflective window film reflects all scenes in the environment include individuals’ behaviours as well. The different sights that people see through the mirror, people are communicating or interacting with a different vision in a normal place.
resilience mizuki tochigi / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Acceptance In Japan, people are taught to be as resilient as bamboo. No matter how strong the wind is, bamboo can be bent but not broken. Accepting all your feelings including sadness, fear and other negative emotions, allows you to release built up tension and give you resilience. Through my work, I want people to notice that acceptance is the key for living resiliently and learn to apply that to their own lives. The spiral metal and bent wood represent resilience and the location of the whole piece represents support for the body. The hollow space in the back leaves space to cushion anything attempting to hurt you. This work gives you good posture to take deep breaths.
revulsion
– phoebe Progression BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / victory Central Saint Martins / Nowhere to Hide contemporary headpieces jewellery Three exploring the manifestation of the that resides in each of us. The footwear fear inexplicable feelings of distress, and dread when confronted, and fashion horror face-to-face, with what keeps awake at night. Focussing accessories uson texture, I wanted to visually
represent the engulfment of the mind when fixated on our fears by covering the face. Through shapes inspired by the growth of tumours and fungus in my designs, varying textures and colours, the pieces look at recreating the emotions we may feel but also provoke them at the same time.
another
sirui wang / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Another Eyewear design based on the concept of a parallel world. The multiple lenses that surround the eyes reflect and refract light, viewing at different angles, which allows the wearer to see the world in different perspectives. I believe the world we see is only a small fragment in a grand reality that is composed of many different worlds existing side by side. This distorted vision created by the lens introduces the wearer to a space outside of reality, allowing them to peer into the many worlds that coincides with the one that we see with the human eye.
identity
sabrina wei / jewellery footwear Progression – Gap Year and fashion Catphishing accessories According to sociologist Erving Goffman:
“the individual ordinarily expects to exert some control over the guise in which he appears before others.” Therefore, we consciously build up a guise for ourselves, known as an identity kit. This identity kit can be problematic since with it, we can be anyone from behind a computer screen. Society demands we reshape the way in which we portray ourselves, it pressures us to act and look in a certain way that might not be healthy. This irrational behaviour is based on society’s expectations to create an existence more appealing to yourself and others. My final outcome consists of three jewellery pieces, each of them changes one’s features in a painful way. Through this I am showing the consequences and price of faking things online. The main materials that I used are metal, plastic and wood. I went through the processes of vacuum-forming, spotwelding and bending to make them.
restriction
megan rose williams / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins The Crazed Artist A collection of contemporary jewellery pieces looking at breaking stereotypes within the art scene – that only the most tortured souls create the ‘best’ and ‘most interesting’ pieces of work. The image of the tortured artist is resilient, and all too often, romantic. The pain harboured by those who lead creative lives is presented differently to others. When an accountant is depressed it’s psychology, when an artist is depressed it’s poetry. These pieces looks at recreating the appeal of mental illness within art and replaces the romance with a more realistic experience of an artist who suffers with psychological issues.
constraint meng wu / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – Gap Year Natural Constraint The supernatural is a key defining element in the gothic. The new creature spine imprisons the chin and neck, which causes a racial problem – whether humans are the dominators of nature. The pattern of the spine was selected from impala horns and make it seem as though grown on the human’s chin. The spine perfectly fits on the neck and becomes more humanoid to eliminate the racial difference between human and animals. Also, it appeals that humans and animals should live in harmony together. The final photograph changes our perspective of who is supposed to be scared of death or being dominated.
5+ 2
yu-chen wu / jewellery footwear Progression – and fashion BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins accessories To Be Is To Be Perceived
Our five senses are fundamental to basic conscious human activity, but, have you ever thought how it feels to lose them? Without them, we will no longer be able to feel, emote and connect. On top of the five existing senses, I wish to evoke two more; balance and proprioception (the sense which lets us know where are body parts are without sight). I wish to create a scenario of fright through my piece, which is made of plaster and glass wax. The fragility of these materials makes it essential for you to reach a state of balance with it, and with yourself. Stay connected, and get ready for fear.
trace ruoli yan / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Traces This hand piece is designed to indicate the theme Traces. The rural-looking armour features sharp tips inspired by the traditional fountain pen, for easy and wellcontrolled mark making. The piece seeks to implicate an aggressive relationship where one partner tries to leave traces on another. The entirety is handmade with plastic and aluminium and then finished with black spray paint. The process involved include the use of a coping saw, filing, hammering and moulding. The armour is designed to perfectly fit the shape of one’s hand to capture a sense of fluency, smartly designed for the quick and easy slip-on wear, which allows for fast movement but also security.
whisper
yu yao / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – tbc Talk To Me Unlike animals or human beings, plants are often considered to be lifeless as they don’t move or talk. I found that plants are treated as mere objects in society sometimes. Therefore, although plants provide green and beauty for this world, it is easily forgotten by people that they are living life just like us. Such a situation provides ideas for my creation – what happens if plants can communicate with people? To answer this question, I put plants into a telephone so they can whisper to human beings, telling us about how they feel about the world and how they feel when people treat them well or not.
ghost silent xiaoyan yu / jewellery footwear and fashion accessories
Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / Central Saint Martins Ghost in the Machine With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, flesh can be replaced by machine, and consciousness can be digitised; human self-awareness therefore becomes weak. How can our souls emerge from the disorderly information ocean? ‘Ghost in the Machine’ is a phrase coined by Gilbert Ryle to describe the Cartesian mind-body dualism. If the soul does not interact with the phenomenal world, then it is better to say that the soul is imprisoned between the flesh and spirit. This combination of helmet and choker is made by twisting wire continuously into random circles and stitching leather pieces together. The wearer will feel compactness and imprisonment, which are the feelings I want to respond to this question.
unconcious
paniz zohdinategh / jewellery Progression – BA (Hons) Jewellery Design / footwear Central Saint Martins and fashion Support System accessories What would you do if you were told
that you will be locked in an empty room for a day? We do not view technology as something harmful because it has brought us many opportunities and we rely on it on a daily basis. Humans are social species and if human contact is taken away by technology, we will disintegrate and stop functioning. I made this piece keeping everyone in mind since it relates to everyone alive at this time. I aimed to create a piece that causes discomfort on the skin while movement is implied as a reminder to show how uncomfortable this idea is.