Significant Others specialises in garments with surface textures being the main focus of the collection with aims to offer skilled craft finishes and excitement in colour, pattern and embellishment. Significant Others stands for the ‘Other’ by reintegrating diverse individuality Signifi by taking traditional techniques of patchwork and bringing them into the modern outcomes with simple silhouettes to atheistically pleases today’s settings The key influence that stimulated this project came from my upbringing being born in the UK and growing to learn and expect both my African heritage and also being a proud Brit whilst learning to adapt and be accepted in both cultures is a constant battle not only for myself but other fellow multi-cultured citizens in western society that at times can be a painful learning curve to recognize one's identity. Signifi Significant Others is a concept that responds to a body of research by creating an outcome involving silhouettes aimed to explore the identity of black ethnicity in Britain by infusing African and British culture. The use of bright screen prints, bold patchwork manipulation and embroidery celebrates the concept of cultural integration and to celebrate what it is to be Black British.
Story telling through applique The use of patchwork is an important use of fabrication to promote story telling and connection, quilting has a history for running in family heirlooms that are cherished with their historical content and stories within the embellishment within the blocks. Using this technique to apply to the FMP project the patchwork by mixing prints inuenced from Britain and Africa to successfully promote the collections story.
Colours are deliberately swapped within the prints to keep the connection of the garments intention and story.
The use of green being prominently used in the collection also reflects the luxury and quality within the concepts ethos with accent colours used to give life to the pieces.
British Colour Pallet
The colour used in this collection conveys the cultural integration of African and British palettes.
Colour Pallet
African Colour Pallet
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
European symbolismArt Nouveau: Natural forms and structures with curved lines of plants and owers emerging modernist ideas
Quick sketch the turned into a print
-Simple forms and natural shapes -Use of light and shadow texture -Evokes an organic feel to designs -Decorative motifs with subtle curves
Recreated from dress observation using inks and hairbrushes as tools
How the triangles could translate into kidswear print.