We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer about their original and creative design work. is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original works.
("") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work . Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
: I was inspired by the architectural work of Frank Gehry.
: I wanted to create dimension on the fabric, which is something rarely seen on a knit garment.
: As a knitwear designer I have always felt that knitwear is been a little underappreciated. the first thing that comes to mind when I mention the word "knitwear" is ugly sweaters or the old fashion hand knitting. I would like to bring new things to this industry and change people's perception about knits, and hopefully a better appreciation of the art form and its process.
: This was just one piece from an entire coat collection of twelve, which took around 7 months.
: I received a full scholarship from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising to participate in a year program designing an entire collection, and presenting it at the FIDM Debut Fashion Show 2015. I had freedom to choose the concept and the inspiration.
: I'm currently displaying this item at one of the school libraries, I would like to showcase this piece in different places. I consider this piece to be unique and hard to replicate, so I don't have any plans on selling. I would like to produce a similar designs in the future and make it more functional and affordable.
: I wanted to take this opportunity and create something new and combine both of my artistic and designer skills, and take knitwear to a whole new level.
: Women contemporary 30 - 50
: My design is very i
: I made the coat on a bulky Hand knitting machine and I used acid dye to hand paint the edges of the fabric.
: the fabric
: Anne Bennion (the chair person of the textile program at FIDM) supervised my work and helped me with the dying process.
