Distortion

A Professional Textile Designer

Isabelle’s final project at university explores the man made world merging with the natural world. Inspired by the vivid colours and shapes of oil spills, Isabelle painted floras from Kew Gardens and local florists, using her research. To achieve the fluidity of the oil spills and to create exciting shapes Isabelle has distorted her paintings on the photocopier.

Isabelle applied the embroidery skills she learnt working at a haute couture atelier, along with digital embroidery, manipulating fabrics, dyeing and digital print. As the samples that Isabelle has created are for winter she mainly used heavier weight fabrics, such as wool barathea and leather, along with a few lightweight fabrics, such as silk organza, which give the samples more fluidity alike to the oil spills. The fabrics choices for the samples were important, as the majority are natural fibres to give a more luxurious feel to the collection and to coincide with the time invested in the delicate techniques applied.