In yesterday's post we looked at a textile artist reinventing embroidery. Let's continue the thread (pun intended) in this post by focusing on a fashion designer experimenting with fabrics and techniques.
After attending the Swedish School of Textiles, Camilla Arnbert started working with fabrics, trying to find new ways to create intriguing patterns and developed a project on transferable prints.
Fascinated by surfaces, textures, patterns and prints, rather than designing a collection moving from one of these inspirations, Arnbert decided to combine all of them together. So she deconstructed fabrics, reduced them to fringes and added embroideries, a series of effects that gave depth and the illusion of movement to the textiles.
Intrigued by the possibilities of developing the potential of textiles, Arnbert then turned to the heat-press usually employed to transfer print from paper to surface, and proceeded to apply prints of generic patterns of tartans, plaids and checks on designs made with heat sensitive yarns after the surface manipulation process, coming up with new visual expressions.
In some cases the heat-sensitive materials, exposed to a printing technique involving high temperatures, assumed indeed a cracked consistency; in others, their volumes and consistency radically changed, creating three-dimensional effects, twists and distortions.
After completing her MA in Fine Arts - Fashion Design in Sweden, Arnbert started working as a fashion and print designer and, hopefully, she will take further her experiments and surface manipulation techniques.
Arnbert's "Surfaced Print" collection is currently part of the exhibition "Young Swedish Design 2020", (until 22nd March 2020) at ArkDes, Sweden's national centre for architecture and design, located in Stockholm. The event features 29 designers from a number of disciplines, including product design, fashion and furniture.
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