Our prolific knitwear student from Central Saint Martins, Cynthia F. has been neck deep in yarn since we last saw her. She was paired with a Final Year CSM knitwear student, Frida Hulten - who will working at Mulberry when she graduates and - to assist up to and throughout the graduate show. Cynthia knitted a dress and half a jacket for her and hopefully we'll get to see photos of those pieces. Cynthia says the collection features lots of bubble shapes so I am all into that.
Then came two competitions. The first was to design a fashion illustration for the tote bags for London Fashion Weekend and Cynthia came up with what you see to the left. If you've been to London you'll surely recognise the 'Gherkin' building that makes up the hat (if you've been following along you know how she loves to take inspiration from architecture). Very cool.
The project for the other contest was to create a T-shirt using an existing one, and the garments were sold at a one-day exhibition to raise money for Oliver, a boy who was about to enroll into first year for Fashion Print but was stabbed in East London. He was left paralyzed from the neck down and will need treatment and medication for the rest of his life.
Cynthia wanted to stick to her knitwear background for this garment so she created a lush collar made of interwoven links of super-thick yarns of varying textures and shades:
Cynthia wasn't at the exhibition but was told her T-shirt was gone very early on and said it was "either sold already or they lost it, or it’s just somewhere lying around..." It think it was sold, Cynthia! (How modest.)
Next time we'll see the project she worked on with The Siblings designer Syd Bryan where she tried out some new techniques. And this one I cannot wait to see: a lingerie project for which she has to knit the lingerie. She's going against her usual style and going 'girly and sweet' to make a lingerie set that is Marie Antoinette inspired (she recently watched the film. If you have not seen it and love fashion it is a must-see for the costume alone). The set will consist of a babydoll, high waisted pants, suspenders (or garters) and stockings and will be photographed in a shoot.
Watch this space!
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