KIMBERLEY CRISPE
Geometric, clean and strong is how Kimberley describes her style. Garments fuse contrasts between the female silhoutte and the use of masculine proportions and mixing opposites. Kimberley believes that fashion should be simple yet suggest subtle details, through mixing fabrics and prints.
The key elements while she designed the current collection were silhouette and proportions- men’s tailoring and the 1920s era, focusing on the boyish silhouette for females, and Art Deco’s geometric shaping, especially found in underwear panelling- fabrics and worn colours of the period always influence her choices too.
The aesthetics of Kimberley’s garments are boyish and loose tailoring, following through to the geometric dresses and tops, focussing on the avant-garde approach to design and pattern cutting. I use men’s garments as patterns to create loose fitting tailoring for women. Working with soft delicate sandwashed silks, silk de crepe and fine jersey, mixing them together in garments using fabric manipulation to emphasise panelling and shaping, whilst Kimberley uses textured thicker wool and jersey fabrics for garments of outerwear, which emphasises more harder, looser tailoring.
Geometric, clean and strong is how Kimberley describes her style. Garments fuse contrasts between the female silhoutte and the use of masculine proportions and mixing opposites. Kimberley believes that fashion should be simple yet suggest subtle details, through mixing fabrics and prints.
The key elements while she designed the current collection were silhouette and proportions- men’s tailoring and the 1920s era, focusing on the boyish silhouette for females, and Art Deco’s geometric shaping, especially found in underwear panelling- fabrics and worn colours of the period always influence her choices too.
The aesthetics of Kimberley’s garments are boyish and loose tailoring, following through to the geometric dresses and tops, focussing on the avant-garde approach to design and pattern cutting. I use men’s garments as patterns to create loose fitting tailoring for women. Working with soft delicate sandwashed silks, silk de crepe and fine jersey, mixing them together in garments using fabric manipulation to emphasise panelling and shaping, whilst Kimberley uses textured thicker wool and jersey fabrics for garments of outerwear, which emphasises more harder, looser tailoring.