Monday 21 February 2011

Mysterious Fashion Textiles of Sheffield

Today walking back from university I cut through Sheffield’s 'Winter Gardens' only to spot the most creative and beautiful textile work ever! I’ve titled the blog this as I’m afraid I have no idea of who created the pieces or why, which is so frustrating! and what’s even more disappointing is on Sheffield’s events website there’s no mention of the little exhibition and I’m sure if it was featured online it would of grabbed a lot more viewers than it did, I guess I’m one of the lucky few who stumbled across it.

But any who the theme was nothing like I’ve seen before, focusing on the human body and organs to produce dresses, I’ve included just some (they're all equally beautiful!) these are personal faves..

The "Sperm Dress" Inspired by sperm can you believe it! It’s so striking. I love the simple yet affective technique, its one I’ve tried myself and it’s ever so time consuming but not too tackling, on the info post it says it took 120 hours to create!
It’s gorgeous and something I wouldn’t think twice about seeing on a high end fashion cat walk!






This dress appears to represent the lungs and intestine (I wish there was more info about this exhibition!) It’s stunning! It’s everything a catwalk dress should be, eye catching, daring and impractical. Love it; again it has been successful in its representation. The feathered back is gorgeous and a look I adore! It reminds me of the feathered skirts that were in the high street shops a few months ago, like this! http://www.polyvore.com/ostrich_feather_mini_skirt/thing?id=5664673 The creativity of the people who made these is just amazing, I did a fashion textiles course at A-Level and never produced anything as beautifully designed or that carries powerful and interesting connotations as this!

The 'Spine' dress, this one was probably the most practical of them all but none the less eye catching. The trail is just perfect and I’m in love with the low scoop back, this silver spine speaks volumes! The use of horse like hair coming from the neck gives it an almost ghostly look to it, it sure does get the desired affect across. A more conventional style of dress but still equally stunning with a clear theme behind it.











  I believe this one represented the meeting of egg and sperm, usually a topic Id avoid in all honesty but put it on a dress and I won’t shut up! Excellent choice of colour, monochrome is not usually my cup of tea but if there ever was a colour needed to signify a coming together of such opposites it would be black and white! Again, credit to designer/creator. Beautiful dress!












Very impressed with these dresses and it really makes me want to get my sewing machine out! I’m sorry that not all the dresses are featured not all of my photos turned out! If anyone has any extra info about this exhibition please let me know, I’m intrigued! x
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  1. Unknown23 February 2011 at 02:08

    Hi Jenny - I am writing from the Helen Storey Foundation who are the producers of the dresses. First of all we are thrilled at your post and your interest!

    To fill in the gaps: The exhibition is part of a project 'Primitive Streak' which is a series of fashion/textile designs which chronicle the first 1000 hours of human life.

    Primitive Streak was one of the first Sci/Art projects funded by the Wellcome Trust and originally featured 27 dresses. It was designed and created by artist/designer Helen Storey (London College of Fashion and her sister biologist Kate Storey (University of Dundee).

    Following the Winter Garden, the exhibition will be touring to Newcastle on March 11th and then to London in April.

    Please see the website: www.primitive-streak.org for more details.

    Thanks again for your interest - keep up the good work!!

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  2. Jennycub23 February 2011 at 11:22

    Hi there Susan,
    Oh excellent! thankyou for filling in those gaps! as I said before its a wonderful and orignal theme to adopt for fashion pieces and Helen Storey is definetly someone I will follow up and look more into.

    Thanks for the feedback!

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