Leutton Postle

When we were given the initial pitch for the Leutton Postle brief I was excited to create work for an upcoming design duo. There work is very bright and combines a lot of unusual elements in order to appeal to a young audience. Although the brief was for knitwear samples I knew that Leutton Postle used embroidery within their past work and felt that it would be a good opportunity to make fashion fabrics and embroidery ideas for one of my live briefs as fashion is the context in which I would like my work to sit.

Leutton Postle, spring summer 2012, http://www.pinterest.com/pin/84372192991759180/

 A couple of the references suggested, that I was particularly drawn to were childlike drawing and hand craft techniques as previously in my project I had been using hand craft techniques and making expressive drawings. When I had my first crit with Sam Leutton she was excited by some of the work I had been making so far, in particular my experimentation with copper sulphate. When it came to me having to create the collection there wasn’t much time, I had produce my fabric samples within the space of two weeks. This was a challenge for me and I was initially very dissatisfied with the samples I produced. I felt that they were on the large part undeveloped, but that I had done well to make so much work in such a short time frame. I kept my colours quite pastel as this tied in well with the child like drawing theme. In the final crit Sam commented upon how she liked the blurred line I had created through ripping up did dyed fabric she also liked the way I combined pastel colours with a clashing green as  this made it less “pretty”. I was shortlisted for the internship that Leutton Postle was proposing be given to the student with the most successful samples. This helped build my confidence as it made me see how my work could be successful within a fashion context. It gave me faith in my experimental approach.