Tailored Covers Collaboration

Tailored Covers have asked Leeds College of Art Printed Textiles Students to design a tailored car cover with the possibility of it being put into production and available for commission. This is such an exciting project and one I would love to be chosen for. As my final major project is partly based on Jaws and horror movies, I thought that sharks would work well on a car cover as they are the primary fish/animal that embodies fast, dangerous, exciting and everything I imagine someone who has a beautiful, fast, exciting car to want! Here are some of my designs draped onto a car cover to show what I want my tailored cover to look like....

Hawaiian Shirts

I thought that some of my designs for Final Major Project might work well on men's shirts, which is an idea that hadn't really occurred to me before this point. I love Hawaiian shirts and they are particularly on trend at the moment with the summer trend of Miami. I am really happy with how they look as drapes.

 The shirt image is not my own.

All designs © Jemima Rodwell 2012

Jaws Initial Drawings

These are some of my watercolour drawings for FMP based on 'Horror Movies' one of the collections is going to be based on under the sea and sharks in particular, I will be making some patterns out of these drawings soon so watch this space....

All drawing © Jemima Rodwell 2012

Blackpool Sealife Photos

These are a selection of the photos taken from my visit to Blackpool Sea-life centre a couple of weeks ago. I love the colours, this is the colour palette I am going to use in my 'Jaws' collection for Final Major Project.

All photos © Jemima Rodwell 2012

Ellen Von Unwerth for Lula Mag

Giffords Circus is the coolest circus around its like a colourful, magical, time-travelling circus combined with Ellen Von Unwerth's special touch this is the most beautiful video ever...almost makes me want to do my final major project on the circus.......

Viva Las Vegas

Finally the project is finished, am really happy with my final prints. I feel like I have found my style at last...cant wait to get started on the next FINAL project!! Scary!!

All work ©Jemima Rodwell

Worthless to Priceless Exhibition

For our Worthless to Priceless exhibition in Uni I decided to jazz up some of my shorts that I already had into something a bit more exciting than standard denim jeans. I wanted to do it as cheaply as possible to keep in with the theme of making something priceless from something with little worth and with things I had to hand. So i bleached the denim shorts with 70p bleach just chucked it in a bucket for half an hour put them in the washing machine...causing serious bubbles and scared faces thinking I had broken it...the came out like this...

 Then I just dipped them in a mop bucket with £3 dylon flamingo pink dye (chosen for the name...obviously) and gradually pulled the shorts further out of the mixture as I added more dye to make the mix stronger.

Then put them in the washing machine again (no bubbles this time), found an old skater belt that I used to wear back in the day.....awkward...pulled the studs off suprisingly easily and just stabbed them into the jeans and bent the back like butterfly clips. Sooo easy..before and after...

My display at Worthless to Priceless Exhibition 2011 :)

We Are Handsome

How acceptable is it to spend 100£ on leggings?? I have fallen in love in a big way...........

Viva Las Vegas!

The project I am working on at the moment is inspired by the cheap, nasty and tacky side of Las Vegas, I am really enjoying it and have looked to Coco Fennel, Prada S/S2012 and Ashish for inspiration. I cant wait to get some of my designs onto fabric and start embellishing them with sequins!

These girls are bridesmaids and going to make a fabric full of wedding inspired images..including a bride drinking champagne...from the bottle  - what happens in Vegas!!

Samuel Bradley Photos

Love this photo by Samuel Bradley I like to put my designs into structured lines, and will try this techinque of fading out from opaque to transparent.

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