Sunday afternoon and the fashion week crowd gathers at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout location, the Freemasons Hall,  for the Spring/Summer offering from Central Saint Martin’s graduate, Phoebe English.  Six months ago the designer was awarded the Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s Merit Award for her AW12 collection (as reported by Who’s Jack last season!)  Spring/Summer 2013 sees the designers’ third offering for Vauxhall Fashion Scout.

English has a long standing interest in process and the maker and takes her inspiration from the process of craftsmanship for this collection.  This season, as with her Autumn / Winter 2012 Phoebe English focuses on the textures within the garments.

Fabrics used were thick, organic cottons, but forms were geometric.  The palette was a monochrome of black and ivory- cited as the colour of masking tape.  The only colour on offer was a pale blue- taken from the colour of tailors chalk. As such English ensured that the palette reflected the way in which each garment was made.  This was further defined by the calico used her fabric of choice. Calico, traditionally used in the toiling process, is an unusual fabric to use for the collection, but it works well in this context when trying to convey the designers’ inspiration of the craftsmanship of the clothing.

Sunday afternoon and the fashion week crowd gathers at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout location, the Freemasons Hall,  for the Spring/Summer offering from Central Saint Martin’s graduate, Phoebe English.  Six months ago the designer was awarded the Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s Merit Award for her AW12 collection (as reported by Who’s Jack last season!)  Spring/Summer 2013 sees the designers’ third offering for Vauxhall Fashion Scout.

English has a long standing interest in process and the maker and takes her inspiration from the process of craftsmanship for this collection.  This season, as with her Autumn / Winter 2012 Phoebe English focuses on the textures within the garments.

Fabrics used were thick, organic cottons, but forms were geometric.  The palette was a monochrome of black and ivory- cited as the colour of masking tape.  The only colour on offer was a pale blue- taken from the colour of tailors chalk. As such English ensured that the palette reflected the way in which each garment was made.  This was further defined by the calico used her fabric of choice. Calico, traditionally used in the toiling process, is an unusual fabric to use for the collection, but it works well in this context when trying to convey the designers’ inspiration of the craftsmanship of the clothing.