Marios Schwab approached me in 2007 to collaborate on his Autumn/Winter 08 print collection. We worked together on further collections, leading to a greater mutual understanding. Dress 09 is a revelation in the nature of collaboration. Combining Schwab’s exquisite knowledge of the woman’s body and tailoring with my desire to see hand and computer react with the moving form, our processes led us to a unique appreciation for each other’s art. I was able to step back from the collections with a more open approach to my methods and it has fostered a desire to continue working in his field. ” ...more
Photo: Alex Lee, The Packshot Company Ltd
- All Exhibitions
- Introduction
- Uncertain curves
" The colour is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide - plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions. "
- The pattern lolls
" There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down."
- The everlastingness
" I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, un-blinking eyes are everywhere. There is one place where the two breadths didn’t match and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other. "
- Curves and flourishes
" Looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes - a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens - go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity. "
- A great many women
" Sometimes there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. "
- The strangest yellow
" It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. "
- The pattern just enjoys it!
" Then I peeled off all the paper I could reach standing on the floor. It sticks horribly and the pattern just enjoys it! All those strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths just shriek with derision! "
