Thursday went
really well, great turn out, tasty cakes and some wine to help it all go down!
The exhibition
includes my collection of Harris Tweed wears, fashion illustrations and items
from around my studio which gives an insight into my design process. I shot some new pieces with photographer Anna Olszewska last week..check out the results in store!
Wall hangings from
Tiger Textiles adorn the back wall showcasing Alison Macleod’s
talents in free hand embroidery and print skills which you often see in our
collaborative work. Alison and I have worked together over the past few years;
we met at Nesta in 2008 and have since formed a great friendship and business
rapport.
You can read more about our collaborative
work below…
Pop
down and have a look the exhibition runs for 8 weeks.
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| Urban Outfitters |
A little bit about or collaborative work…..
Alison Macleod sends me tweed panels embroidered with the Gaelic language
telling stories which are inspired by her native
Hebridean heritage, Gaelic culture and natural surroundings. Using this
inspiration, Alison embroiders lengths of Harris Tweed with designs that
compliment the traditional cloth. Through delicately stitching Gaelic songs and
poems in the tweed, she is telling the story of where the cloth is from and
promoting the culture in a modern way. She sends me her embroidered fabrics to
Edinburgh to incorporate into my designs. We named our first collaboration
‘The Gaelic Frock Coat’
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| From the Herald when The Gaelic Frock Coat was first created! |
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The
Gaelic Frock Coat made it s debut at the Scottish Style Awards and has since
traveled internationally gracing the catwalks of Japan for the ‘Tweed goes to
Tokyo’ exhibition, New York at ‘Dressed to Kilt’ and also at ‘Sachs on Fifth
Avenue’. The jacket also represented the winners of textile manufacturer
of the year, Harris Tweed Hebrides, at the Scottish Fashion Awards at Stirling
Castle.
I have
made a number of frockcoats that feature Alison’s embroidery; they give the
jackets more meaning, a different edge, people like to hear the journey about where the
garments come from.
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| Tiger Textiles – commission for loom shed |
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| Tiger Textiles – we used this embroidered print on our Pheasant Feather bustle jacket. |
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| The Gaelic Frock Coat – Images Jannica Honey. |
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The back panel of the frock coat
tells a story about a woman at a ceilidh dancing in a petticoat with high
heeled red shoes on. Alison has embroidered a poem in Gaelic through this very
tactile piece she made from felt, tweed and vintage fabrics.
The jacket is also on display in Urban
Outfitters.
Check out Where I Make for more info about my studio in Edinburgh!
