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- Aoife O Dwyer
Aoife
O Dwyer
Aoife and Nicholas
My unisex collection is inspired by my relationship with my father, Nicholas who serves in the Irish Défense Forces. In 2003 my dad served in Lebanon when I was 6. As a child I was fascinated by his trips abroad to Lebanon . I wanted to contrast my childhood innocence with my Dad’s experience of dangerous war-torn territories. My aim was to create a fun, playful and energetic collection inspired by our separate lives during 2003 while recognising the father-daughter connection.
The key elements that inspired the collection were my dad’s service jacket and my dolls pram. I developed my shapes through innovative pattern cutting and then developing those shapes on the stand. I recreated some of my childhood drawings by directly hand drawing onto fabric. I chose to work with wool inspired by my Dad’s jacket and satin inspired by my dress up costumes, I merged the colour stories to have pink wool and green satin. The outcome was to achieve a childhood innocence unisex collection using the masculine and childlike spec.
Internship- Pam Hogg London