Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design
Southampton Row, WC1B 4AP
Tube: Holborn
Private view: 22 June, 5-9 pm
Public: 23 June - 1 July
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Introduction:

Textile designers are at the forefront of the creative industries. Their work impact on fashion, product, lifestyle, architecture and even the space industry.

This year we are presenting 12 designers at the cutting edge of their field who have investigated new markets, new materials and new sustainable ways of life and death.

Our 2006 degree show will feature:

Portable Shrines:
Carolina Agudelo presents a collection of fashion accessories that embrace Latin American catholic rituals: A prayer bag that lights up when you prey, a rosary bag that whispers prayers in your ears…

Eco-textiles, the Global and the Local:
Setareh Arefi designs highly crafted furnishings using sustainable materials. Her design work embraces traditional local Iranian felt making together with laser cutting and digital printing for contemporary interiors. A collection of recycled carpets introduces a decorative and ornamental new look for eco-design.

Y Wallsä, Flexible Textile Architecture:
Preksha Baid presents a range of digitally printed textile hangings which can easily be shaped, sculpted and transformed in seconds. These panels introduce a fun and poetic way to twist the boundaries and appearance of a space.

Graffiti Gardensä, Sustainable Surfaces:
Amelia Carter presents an exciting range of sustainable products for your home and garden. She reinvents materials such as cork, ceramics, and metal for a playful set of products that will change appearance over time. The interaction with weather, humidity levels and UV levels is built into the design product to create living surfaces for your home.

Design for Death:
Fancy a new look for your coffin? Charlene Clempson tackles the restricted Victorian aesthetics of funeral parlours. Charlene presents a customised collection of furnishings for your final home.

What If Your Car Was Just A Piece Of Cloth?
Raf Chan looks into future means of transportation. Inspired by interactive design and future technologies such as shape memory polymers, light and sound-reactive fabrics, wearable display screens, Raf envisions a driver-less car; a smart empty fabric shell which responds to travellers’ need and can adapt from a massage fabric to an anti-crime device.

Our Future Selves, our Future Skins:
2400 AD. The new luxury skin collection by DeWson has been launched. This Sci-Fashion lab creates customised couture skins. Fashion to the extreme: seasonal cosmetics will make your skin morph and grow into a new temporary skin. Crystal butterflies, rainbow skins and more… Fiona Dewson travels into the future to bring back fragments of couture skins.

Spoilt Bitch
A collection for techno dogs: from night-wear to safe-wear for all your lovely furry companions. Ellie Gosse integrates new fibres and new technologies to design dog jackets and collars which light up when the dog barks or simply glow in the dark.

Stitched Up
A collection of fashion accessories for the wounded. Urbi Ghosh has produced a collection of designer plasters and bandages which features Crabylon and Seacell yarns with a fun and fashionable style.

All stories have endings
Kimberley Hall designs an innovative fashion collection engineered to change colour and shape over time. Only one thing, you have no idea what will change and how the clothes will transform. Playing with the effect of surprise and the unexpected, Kim’s work nurtures a teasing relationship between the wearer and the garment.

crEATe
An intelligent table-cloth for the romantic but naughty lovers. Natalie Hand plays with imagery and sound to create a “cheeky” interactive dining experience.

A Home for the Body
Sindiso Khumalo believes in hybrid design. Her work twists and teases the notion of fashion and architecture. By blurring boundaries of conventional definitions of space, Sindiso designs a surreal environment that proposes a new kind of interaction between home and body.

Carole Collet
Course Director.
www.textilefutures.co.uk
c.collet@csm.arts.ac.uk