About Me
Hi I’m Mark Callaghan, A fashion design student at the UoGM.
Mark is interested in tailoring, hand sewing, and garment construction. He is also passionate about integrating traditional methods into modern fashion to promote slow fashion, and garment longevity, passionately supporting mental health awareness drawing on lived experience with mental health challenges and celebrate Japanese culture with genuine admiration.
Mark is passionate about tailoring, hand sewing, and garment construction, valuing the precision and artistry involved. He integrates traditional techniques into modern fashion, advocating for slow fashion and the longevity of well-made garments. Mark is also a strong supporter of mental health awareness, drawing on his own lived experiences to encourage open conversations and understanding. His admiration for Japanese culture is genuine, celebrating its aesthetics and philosophies in both his creative and personal pursuits.
INSPIRATION
The Green Thread in a White Fabric： Weaving Mental Health into Conformist Fashion Trends
The Green Thread in a White Fabric: Weaving Mental Health into Conformist Fashion Trends is a juxtaposition of mental health, individuality and self-confidence and opposing social norms. This concept challenges trends, fight for individuality and advocate for mental health by just simply being oneself and being comfortable in wearing what you want. The customer that this collection aims at is primarily late 20s and throughout the 30s, male and female of all orientations who support mental health awareness
Green, white, black and a print all juxtapose each other with sharp lines denoting anxiety and wavey edges that denote depression, all tied together with layers of tulle to convey the intertwined breadth of mental health. Following on with a cyberpunk inspired print with laser cut fabric and experimental fabric manipulation to tie all the themes together. The reason I chose cyberpunk is because in my opinion it’s almost a mirror image of what is happening in today’s culture with high society & low culture
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
concept board
creative concept board
stand work 1
stand work 2 /collage
tulle layering development
Print development
final 3 line up CAD's
Outfit 1 design development
Outfit 1 toile
Outfit 1 final design
Outfit 2 print development
outfit 2 laser cutting development
Outfit 2 toile
Outfit 2 final design
outfit 3 design development
outfit 3 toile
Outfit 3 final design
Look Book
Creative CV
DETAIL
“Always learning never actually sat doing nothing”
What I mean by the heading is, even when I am sat relaxing “doing nothing” I am still either watching something fashion related or looking at new techniqus, or simply wrapping my head around a new design. This way I am never just squandering time… that is how I figured out the tulle layering element of “outfit one”… I watched a documentary about how a garment was made and studied the documentary for how the layering effect was achieved then translated that into my own design. After this I experimented with different ways of recontextualising this technique, by pleating the tulle layers, stitching randomly pleated sections down and also just scrunching up the tulle and then printing over, the laser cutting was developed by simply image trace on one of my pictures I was going to use as a print but chose the one of Deansgate.
Helping those feeling a little out in the open - Hinadori 🐣
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