S/S 16 LOOKBOOK
India Harris
METHOD TO THE MADNESS
P r i nted T e x t i les University Of Brighton
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‘Method To The Madness’ is a collection inspired by surrealism with particular influence from collage and photography. The collection combines hand painted fabrics, silkscreen printing and digital printing. Using playful and graphic imagery with bold colours, the collection has a tongue in cheek, humorous aesthetic. Foiling and sequinning adds detail, focusing the market on a high-end consumer.
India Rose Harris Ind i a H a r r i s Printed Textile Designer
0001 Ellen is dressed in “Collage” digitally printed silk satin shirt, with ‘Lips’ glitter clutch bag. 0002 Print design for the inside of the collar detail.
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Inspiration T i m w alke r Fashion photographer Tim Walker highly inspired the collection. His work portrays a surreal and playful aesthetic that captures fantasy like images.
F eat u r es & ma r k mak i n g Facial features are a recurring theme in surrealism and repeatedly appear in the
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hand t i nted photo g r aphs Old-fashioned hand tinted photographs inspired me to develop digital prints where the colour is hand painted in.
Q u ent i n J ones Collage/Illustration artist who uses photography and painting to create imagery has inspired the collection.
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S u r r eal i sm A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
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Print Concept from a photograph.
0004 Hand painted digital print. Used on the cuff detail.
0005 Close up of silk screen printed and foiled length.
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Digital print design taken
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C ollect i on This printed collection captures vibrancy and playfulness. The bold colours and graphic prints have a humorous nature.
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Although the collection is lighthearted, the fabrics used are of high quality and the detail added to them through hand painting and embellishment makes this collection available to a luxury market.
0006 Splatter print using same technique as garment length.
0007 Collection of hand silk screen printed samples.
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Blossom by Glashier
0009 Ellen is wearing digitally printed ‘Collage’ shirt in silk satin.
0010 Laying amongst the flowers in sandwash silk satin “Splatter’ print dress. 0011 Bullseye by Glashier.
0012 “Splatter’ print foiled dress with ‘Eyes’ glitter clutch bag & sequinned lips heels.
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0013 ‘Collage’ shirt with gold glitter trousers.
0014 ‘Collage’ shirt with gold glitter trousers.
0015 ‘Lips’ glitter clutch bag & ‘Love Heart’ irridescent heels.
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0016 ‘Splatter’ silk screen printed shirt dress with foil detail.
0017 ‘Splatter’ dress amongst the blossom.
0018 ‘Eyes’ gold glitter clutch bag with ‘Splatter’ print dress.
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0019 Juliet wears ‘Splatter’ print dress and sequinned ‘Lips’ heels. 0020 ‘Collage’ shirt with ‘Lips & Eyes’ glitter clutch bag collection and resin cast jewellery. 0021 Styling detail.
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s u r r eal i st The concept behind the collection was to create prints, imagery and photography using a creative process free of conscious control, allowing imagination to run free. The combination of imagery mixed and matched with other medias creates a collection that uses everyday objects/ images in unusual places. This is the epitome of surrealism.
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This collection was developed, silk screen and digitally printed by India Harris at the University of Brighton for her BA (Hons) Textile Design with Business Studies degree, 2015.
With special thanks to everyone who was involved: Rachel Stockman, James Ward, Jonathan Stockman, Ellen Egan, Juliet Hilder and Lois Townsend.
P hoto g r aph y Steve Glashier www.glashier.co
H a i r S t y l i st Eliot McQueen @Anothermcqueen
M ake - u p Kit Beaumont kit.beaumont@hotmail.com
India C O N TA C T www.indiaroseharris.com india@indiaroseharris.com +44 (0) 7852 101 559