Designer Series, Knitwear: The White Project

Last time, we saw Central Saint Martins knitwear student Cynthia AKA CFST's intriguing Metamorphosis Knits, and now she's sharing the results of her White Project. For the theme she chose Traditional Borderline and began by exploring the traditional aspects of male and female clothing and how she might create menswear with female body shapes. This proved problematic so she looked elsewhere for inspiration and found it in the work of British sculptor Anthony Gormley (anyone from the north east of England and beyond will know his famous sculpture Angel of the North). Taking a cue from his rigid shapes and his process of wrapping as she saw outlined in a book, she decided to study restriction.

The materials were limited to cotton and felt and unsurprisingly, it took a substantial amount to complete her design - the shoulder panel required three metres of felt alone! (And yes, it's quite heavy.) It was all worth it, Cynthia scored the highest mark (and big points to her friend Aiko who modelled)!

Cynthia finger knitted the felt into the neckpiece: