Michael Kidner

Within this project I have also picked up the Michael Kidner live brief, taking inspirations from his op art in the 1960’s to develop a collection of fabrics that could be used for fashion. In particular 60’s style mod dresses.

Although Kidners work is flat, block colour, I have chosen to represent the waves and pattern through texture. I have done this through manipulating pockets, drop stitch, using lycra and racking.

Ladders Racked

Racking and Drop stitch

Mock rib, Racking, Drop stitch

I have been very influenced through his interest in ‘chaos’ and have expressed this through the strong detail in my samples of fabrics. I have chosen to do them proportionally as strong detail against plain knit to demonstrate the strong pattern on flat block colour.

From a recent trip to Florence and the Pitti Filati exhibition I have gained a lot of inspirations of techniques and use of colour.

I wanted to keep my colour pallet similar to Michael Kidners later work of toned down shades, I have done this through the use of grey and white alongside strong colour and mixing up proportion of colour through my collection.

My visualisations for my fabrics have come from inspiration off Missoni and Marc Jacobs. I have toned mine down to detailing as apposed to all over pattern.

Missoni 2014