Press Release, Degree Show June 2007

We present 19 designers who have been challenging and redefining the field of textile futures. You can download images from our press download section or get more information about each individual project on http://textilefutures.co.uk/exchange/bin/view/TextileFutures/Alumni07

RESPONSIVE TEXTILES

Meixuan Chen: Blooming

Can intelligent knitted textiles bring more fun to our everyday lives? This project investigates the potential use of knitted textiles for interactive lighting products.

Yun Ding: Aqua Chameleon

How can the use of new materials and new technology be explored to redesign the concept of swimwear?

Dina Elsabahi: Stroke Me

Pet Cushion: Can woven textiles exploit principles found within bio-mimetics to produce living animated objects for the home? Looking at organic textures and nature as a muse, this project is about changing perceptions of furnishings in the home.

Aeden Mun: Weather Wall

This project explores the design of interactive wallpapers which react to the weather forecast. The wallpapers brighten up on a rainy day and tone down with the sun.

Kerri Wallace: Motion Response Sportswear

This project challenges the potential of wearable display technologies in textile design. The design collection explores ways to produce motion responsive fabrics for sportswear. The textile collection mimics both animal and human species through the application of smart technologies and traditional printed textiles.

Veronica Wunderlin: Wearable Landscapes

This design collection explores the notion of the body as a landscape. It is inspired by a personal photographic project which celebrates lights and the urban landscape. The final fashion collection incorporates various lighting technologies which are integrated with traditional print techniques.

ECO CONSCIOUS

Elena Corchero : Solar Vintage

The potential use of solar energy in textiles is just in its infancy. This project explores the creative potential to design innovative textiles that combine traditional craft and embellishment techniques with the integration of solar cells for a fashion accessory collection.

Lucy Fergus: Re-Silicone

A passion for transparent industrial materials and repetitive modular structures has inspired the designer to develop new applications for technical textiles. The final lighting collection is entirely designed to exploit the intrinsic qualities of recycled silicone.

Mark Liu: On the Cutting Edge

The project aims at combining the processes of pattern cutting and textile patterns to generate an innovative fashion range.

Jessica Martin: Mix and Match

Mix and match prints will allow consumers to be creative and experimental with their clothes. They can customise their clothing every time they wear it. Consumers can purchase fewer items of clothing for their wardrobe and reinvent it again and again.

Neda Niaraki: Fast Food Fashion

Can Tyvek clothing remedy fashion over-consumption? An economy based on the increasing consumption of resources is only temporary since the amount of resources on the planet is undoubtedly finite. The project proposes a disposable Tyvek clothing line which aims to fulfil consumers‚ incessant desire for fashion while reducing resource over-consumption and wastage.

Heather Smith: Come Rain and Shine

How can the natural elements be controlled and exploited in order to produce decorative surfaces for exteriors?

POETICS

Indu Choraria: Co-Design

An interactive platform for designing knitted textiles for fashion.

Lidia Muro: Move your Body

How to create a new relationship between 2D and 3D textiles for innovative fashion concepts?

Rebecca Otero: Chairs in Conversation, Scala Amoris

Through an exploration of innovative textile techniques and smart technologies the project proposes chairs in conversation that manifest various rituals and stages of a love relationship.

Marion Piffaut : Memories Revealed

The ultimate scarf collection that changes colour over time and transforms with the seasons.

Seetal Solanki: Urban Fabrication

How can Textiles challenge the way we interact with the built environment? This architectural textile collection plays with UV filters and natural wind forces to animate the exterior skin of derelict buildings.

Ninette van Kamp: Souffrez Pour Moi

No pain, No gain: this tongue in cheek underwear collection challenges the notion of pain and beauty. Temporary textile tattoos reveal a new skin aesthetic.

Veronica Wunderlin

Yu Chu Amanda Yuen: Genetic Fashion

Can we use principle of biology as a new methodology to create fashion? This project fantasises on the notion that garments can reproduce themselves and exploits biogenetics as a creative process to design an innovative fashion collection.

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For further information, please contact CaroleCollet, Course Director, MA Textile Futures, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP, UK. Tel: 0044 (0) 207 514 7140 Email: c.collet@csm.arts.ac.uk

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High resolution images of each students work can be downloaded from here PressImages