Movement Collection I Movement Collection 2002-2004 This movement collection was part of my practice-led PhD which proposed alternative practices in a research and design context that explore the intersection of fashion, fine art and performance methodology and practice. The intention of the research was to provide new insights into the way fashion designers can work…
Movement Collection II This collection of garments was the concluding element of my practice-led PhD at the University of the Arts London entitled ‘Interface: Concept and Context as Strategies for Innovative Fashion Design and Communication: An Analysis from the Perspective of the Conceptual Fashion Design Practitioner’. (Bugg, 2006). Credits Photography: Roy Shakespeare
Red Shoelace Dress The shoelace dress is constructed of many layers and lengths of shoelaces. It was developed from extensive experimentation with diverse textile possibilities in movement. It focuses on total body movement and is designed to encourage the wearer to move in response to the weight, materiality and active potential of the garment. Credits…
Emotion EMOTION COLLECTION 2011 This project has focused on the clothed body as a site for production of meaning, performance and communication through design. It exposes the role of clothing design as a generator of performance and communication through design. The project has explored the clothed body as visual and embodied narrative and the outcome…
Drawing with the body and cloth This work is part of the project Flight: Drawing Interpretations, a collaboration with researchers from London College of Fashion with The National Gallery in London. My work within this project extends design methods for contemporary dance through theoretical and empirical research into the relationship between design, drawing methodologies and…
Perceiving Dress – Optical Laces The film Perceiving Dress: Optical Laces is generated from research into sensory and visual perception of dress worn in movement. The dress is the performance site, designed as a tool to extend the experience, perception and physical response of the dancer. The dancers verbal and physical responses to the garment have been…
Confrontation, Concept and Clothing This collection explores human behaviour and the garments are designed to physically dictate feelings and specific reactions from wearers. The garments seek to alter the perception and behaviour of the wearer by restricting the normal functioning of the body. Credits Photographer: Jessica Bugg
