The Undercover Princess New European Designers
New European Designers We all know the great names that transformed the exclusive craftsmanship of making clothes into an admired art form, readily available to the masses with the prêt-à-porter collections. Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Gianni Versace, and even Erling Persson, the founder of H&M, just to [...]
Secret D’or Feature Jenny Collicott
Jenny Collicott - One Year On Textile designer Jenny Collicott returned to New Designers, after graduating from Bucks New Universty in 2012, with three different collections of printed silk scarves. Entitled Resort, Gracioso and Camera Obscura each of them show different types of artistic explorations. These span from merging colourful [...]
Arts Thread Q&A with Jenny Collicott
Textile designer and Bucks New University graduate Jenny Collicott will return to New Designers in 2013 to show her latest collection at One Year On. In this Q&A, the up-and-coming designer tells ARTS THREAD about the work she’ll be bringing to the show and what she hopes to [...]
Add this scarf for a bit of ‘je ne sais quoi…’
When I recently spied a very stylish woman running down a Paris street, I wish I could have taken a picture of her to show you. She had on a cargo styled coat with a fur trimmed collar, some sort of silk blouse with skinny [...]
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Lovely updated portfolio of silk scarves.
The Tip of a Talented Iceberg
So difficult to choose, ARTS THREAD selects the tip of a talented iceberg of textile print graduates showing at New Designers last week. From Bucks New University, Jenny Collicott’s beautiful and bold digital prints drew inspiration from David Hockney’s iconic imagery and reflect its playfulness and quirkiness.