During my time at NTU, I was asked to
participate in collaboration with Sophie Stella who is
renown knit trend forecaster and swatch developer in the UK. Her studio has
been running a project with NTU Fashion and Knitted Design students for years
(she is a graduate of the course). The collaboration involved choosing a trend,
decided by Sophie Stella, for Spring Summer 2012/13 and develop at least 4 swatches to
then have 2 of those chosen to be shown at Spin Expo in Shanghai. My decided
trend was ‘Cosmic Transformation’ which focused on very 60’s feeling colour
palette with bright, fun and pop colours that were synonymous with the psychedelic colours available through new fibre production.
I produced multiple swatches in various colour proportions from my Stohl power knit design that I had created initially for my 4 garments to be accessed. I then screen-printed a line detail over a couple, left some plain and knitted the 4th colour in (the line detail).
This was all very rushed as it was my last week of
study at NTU and we still had 4 garments to complete and a fashion show to
organise, however it was an opportunity to good to pass up ……
I am really pleased with the result and I’m proud that
an image of my swatches on display is used as the cover image for my chosen
trend on a Spin Expo link (provided below- password = trend). I am really happy
that I have had swatches displayed in such a prestigious expo with
approximately 20,00 visitors over 3days. Over all I was extremely satisfied
with all the work I accomplished during my 5 month stay in the UK and would definitely
recommend it to anyone.http://sophiesteller.dphoto.
www.spinexpo.com
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