About Me
Hi, im Faye, a fashion design graduate from Winchester School of Art
As a Womenswear designer, I want to challenge traditional notions of style, marked by unexpected material combinations and contrasting silhouettes. I want my designs to engage the senses through textural interplay and depth. Exploring tactile feelings, I create garments that evoke a sense of escapism, taking the viewer on a visceral journey.
My creative process is intimately intertwined with my personal experiences and cherished memories. I immerse myself fully, allowing emotions and nostalgic connections to guide my artistic journey. Primary research through family photographs, and my own personal memories have enhanced my design development. As a highly tactile designer with an editorial eye, I engage heavily in the design process through sampling, sketching, and collaging with fabrics and silhouettes, allowing concepts to unfold intuitively.
INSPIRATION
My Grandparents Rose Garden
The garden holds profound meaning as a place that has witnessed many life events over generations. It is a symbol of stability, love and growth. Exploring the textures surrounding us amidst the flowers, and how family memories become rooted together here. The collection aims to evoke the comforting nostalgia and beauty inherent in this garden. Each garment embodies a cherished memory encapsulated in organic shapes and silhouettes mimicking the garden elements, celebrating the natural cycle of growth.
I was captured by the colours and the beauty of a single rose; seeing the bud form and develop to reveal the delicate petals. My grandad would take photographs of every rose in the garden every year. These rose shapes became the main inspiration for the silhouette within the collection. Trying to echo the rose petals and layers. My aim is for the collection to be a gateway, allowing them to step into the garden and to be surrounded by its beauty.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DETAIL
Gathers, Silhouette and Print Development
Every finer detail of the collection I want to echo the true beauty of the garden. Through the choice of fabric it was important to me to have textural fabric based creating depth in the collection but also reflecting the many textures surrounding the garden, from this I wanted to create my own print which captured the roses within the garden. My print explores the rose cycle from delicate buds unfurling into beautiful blooming roses portraying the life cycle of growth which echoes through family memory. The complexity of a single rose bloom became the main focus for my silhouette development too. I explored fabric manipulation to create depth within the collection. Using exaggerated gathers and shapes as a main element to mimic the organic shapes and lines of the rose stems and buds. Having layered garments with contrasting striking shapes highlights this silhouette.
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. - Elizabeth Lawrence
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