About Me
Fashion Designer Venetia Williams, Graduate of Kingston University.
Venetia Williams is a multidisciplinary artist-designer brought up within a creative family on the gateway to the Yorkshire Moors. Absorbing the environment around her in which she grew up in awe of the abundance of space, the angelic tranquillity characteristic within nature contrasting between the industrialism aesthetic of her family.
Venetia Williams descends from a long line of established artists, designers and engineers, creativity has been imprinted in her DNA, Williams is a natural multi-disciplinarian. Her adept understanding of technicalities within construction developed from the age of seven when receiving her first sewing machine, triggering her fascination to explore the shapes in which to construct an outer shell of protection. She bridges sharp precision engineered through her specialities in couture, bespoke tailoring, and pattern cutting, with expressionism and experimentation seemingly devoid of boundaries.
INSPIRATION
Williams's internal Inspiration from one self’s identity.
The collection of Yorkshire-born multidisciplinary artist-designer Venetia Williams explores the disruption of hegemonic masculinity within tailoring through both soft and hard delicate gestures manifest in silk georgette, wool, chainmail, and pewter; inspired by William’s conflicted ancestry of artists and utilitarian-military. Woven with memories of her unorthodox domestic home, clad internally with industrial checker plate aluminium, and adorned with stainless-steel prison toilets, and disco balls.
Williams juxtaposes her maternal lineage’s artist and creative identities with the formality of her father’s military heritage, specifically drawing on her Great-Great Uncle, founder of the Scouts Movement. Williams, at once in awe of the technicalities displayed in clothing aesthetics of power that he symbolises, yet disgusted by the domination that this represents. Combining these divided worlds within a collection that stretches formalism and rigidity to disrupt the aesthetics of power through ornament
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
TITLE PAGE
MOOD BOARD
INSPERATION
STATEMENT
TAILORED TROUSERS
CHAINMAIL CAST PROCESS
CHAINMAIL TOP
LIQUID METAL DRESS
ARTEFACT
GEORGETTE SKIRT DEVELOPMENT
GEORGETTE DRESS DEVELOPMENT
LINEUP
YORKSHIRE DALES SHOOT
YORKSHIRE DALES SHOOT
YORKSHIRE DALES SHOOT
YORKSHIRE DALES SHOOT
YORKSHIRE DALES SHOOT
YORKSHIRE DALES SHOOT
YORKSHIRE DALES SHOOT
DETAIL
STRETCHING FORMALITIES – Expanding the boundaries in which confine traditional clothing.
Venetia Williams devoted time and meticulous effort by manually linking seamless aluminium chainmail which was solidified by pouring melted pewter between the links, thus supporting organic folds simulating an appearance of liquid by waves rippling through the creases and folds, creating a body-formed aluminium cast. These material qualities allow the fabrication to hold forms, which once worn simulate dripping metal gliding along the human body's natural curves. The collection is accompanied by complimentary fluid-appearing tailored garments soaked in resin to simulate the water's appearance. Inspired by Eton College’s uniform consisting of a pin-striped three-piece tail-suit, the garments are constructed from Herringbone Wool Fabric sourced from Savile Row, which clothed much of the imperial military elite. Williams paired complimentary juxtaposition pieces made from lightweight 100% georgette silk, in contrast to the heavy metal pieces, using drapery to simulate the forms of delicate flowing liquid
"Determining the analytic theory of identity and fulfilment needs an environment that pushes the experimental boundaries"
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