Fans of DIY fashion rejoice and get ready to shop not for presents but for fabrics this Christmas. A year after releasing the pattern for Giles Deacon's "Troubadour" dress, SHOWstudio's Design Download is announcing a new project by experimental Jonathan Anderson of the J.W. Anderson label.
The good news is that there will actually be two patterns, one for a leather top and one for its matching "balloon skirt", both taken from the designer's Autumn/Winter 2013 collection. While these pieces already offer the wearers a certain degree of freedom as they can pull the ribbon and tighten/loosen the hole of the skirt or alter the dimensions of the sleeve with the same trick, recreating these pieces in different fabrics will allow people to take the garments to another level and be even more experimental.
Like for the previous designs, you can downoad the pattern (available from Christmas Day), make your look and submit images via Twitter (@SHOWstudio #DesignDownload) and/or email (design.download@showstudio.com) them for the chance to see your work displayed online in SHOWstudio's submissions gallery.
The favourite dresses – picked by Nick Knight and Anderson – will be part of a specially commissioned SHOWstudio fashion film (deadline for submissions: 31 March 2014).
Anderson closes with this project his annus mirabilis: in 2013 LVMH took a minority stake in his business and tapped him as creative director for Loewe.
Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design Download initiative encourages people to be creative while discovering also the technicalities of fashion. If you're not convinced by Anderson's top and skirt, you can always try downloading another pattern by Yohji Yamamoto, Maison Martin Margiela, Stephen Jones, Gareth Pugh, Giles Deacon, Alexander McQueen or Antony Price, among the others (check out the Design Download page here). Still there? Go out and shop for fabrics now!
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