Jack Kindred-Boothby
The Performing Tube. Collaboration with Jessie Metcalf and Kelly Jordan. This project upcycled waste fabric from a small family-run garment factory in the east midlands and waste dyes from a film company costume department into a collection that was shown as a performance at a performing arts festival in Derbyshire. Accessories were created as part of the collection, which were given out during the show, with the intention of creating a more interactive experience. The clothes were made with performance in mind, each one having some kind of transition designed into it.
Graduate Collection This collection used a mix of new and reclaimed fabrics, including waste sailcloth from a nearby sailmakers and calico and spot & cross paper used in the design process. Innovative cutting processes using gunpowder and a blowtorch help to transform these waste fabrics into something unique and beautiful. Digital print jersey made by collaging stills from a film shot for the collection was used to create the stretch peices, and the waste print, including test runs, was used to make accessories for the runway.
Graduate Collection - Look 3 Bonded jersey jacket. Blowtorch-cut calico shirt. Brushed cotton kilt.
Graduate Collection - Look 4 Muslin body with blowtorch-cut calico structure. Reclaimed knit low-crotch trousers.
Graduate Collection - Look 7 Reclaimed bonded sailcloth coat. Printed jersey t-shirt. Heavyweight denim jeans.
Graduate Collection - Look 8 Bonded watercolour paper dress with printed jersey back. Printed jersey headpiece.
Brighton Fashion Week. The collection reshown at BFW in June 2013. Runway Photography by Malcolm Tam.
Experimental pattern cutting project. Using fire & gunpowder to cut out pattern-pieces with a technique that was developed to make accurate cutting possible, leaving a burned edge that can be a visible trim on the outside of the garment. In some garments in the collection, this technique was combined with circular pattern cutting, where the waste fabric is what is cut away, and the remainder of the cloth is sewn together into the garment.
Design Collection Project. Some looks and styles from this project were later developed into my graduate collection. The idea behind this collection proposal was that each style could be ordered in either new or reclaimed fabrics.
Second year mini-collection. This collection used layers of fusible interfacing to re-use a length of black jersey, turning it into a suitable suiting fabric. It also used screenshots from a digital film made for the collection that took advantage of purposeful errors in video compression - these were then collaged together to form long prints which were layered in silk and cotton. This technique for making print imagery was also used later on in my graduate collection.