Lauren Bowker, a textile design for fashion student gave one of the most inspiring talks i have been to all year!
Originally a student from Bury college Lauren came to MMU hoping to get a place on the fashion course, unfortunately she was knocked back from the path and instead got a place on the tetxile design course, something she wasn't extremely pleased about. Throughout her time at MMU Lauren had a very broad range of outputs, working solely by herself in the first year, breaking her back and being on bed rest for a year, before returning to uni with a very different outlook on life.
Lauren began collaborating with science students in the second and third year and it was through this collaboration that she made a name for her self. She had a simple idea, clothes that changed colour depending on the amount of air pollution surrounding you. The concept was great, but not without its difficulties, it took herself and her colleagues nearly a whole year to create a garment that actually fitted the idea, but finally it was created!
It was from this one show stopping piece that Lauren created a name for herself in the fashion industry. After graduating from MMU Lauren head to the Royal college of art in London to per-sue her career. Being approached my Marks and Spencer almost immediately was something that Lauren found herself struggling with, the brief was simple, create a line of clothing for the 40 plus woman. It wasn't until the night before the deadline that Lauren came up with the whole collection, this was later used nationwide!
From this Lauren went on to work with the Airbus airline team to create a vision for a new slick interior for the 2050 design of aircraft.
She has also created a concept of Electronic wallpaper, the idea, as you can probably guess is to be able to change your wallpaper depending on your mood.
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I loved this talk, I found it really interesting! I thought it was inspiring to see how her career as developed since her degree. I think it gives you something to aspire to, its nice to see that shes done so well for her self!
ReplyDeleteI didn't go to this one but i'm glad you wrote it up! I think I'm going to research more about her after reading this, changing colours and pattern like we were talking about earlier fits in so well with her work!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if their are any simpler ways of changing fabrics colour ways or properties we could experiment with such as colours changing depending on the light coming in from outside the new building/weather?