London-based designer Ying Wu has set up a new label - Pig Chicken & Cow - along with fellow artist Shan Jiang. The duo were spotted at their own a stand at the Scoop London exhibition held in July, showcasing their new collection of creative scarfs.
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| Shan Jiang (left) and Ying Wu (right) at the Scoop London exhibition in July 2016. Photo: Lucia Carpio (C) My Fashion Connect Global |
Explaining that each scarf from their new collection has a unique story to tell, the designers now live and work in London and are strongly influenced by their home city of Shanghai; its architecture, as well as flourishing subcultures, Chinese meticulous art, contemporary and traditional superstitions.
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| Eden No. 1 Garden design as shown at the Scoop London show. |
Miss Ying Wu, who graduated with a Bachelor honours degree in textile design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2010, and a Master degree in textile print from Royal College of Art (2012), won the Pattern Prize at the 2012 Texprint Awards as well as the Timney Pattern Award of the same year. She has since worked with various brands and companies including Sportmax, Habitat, Diesel, Kappa, De Le Cuona, Waddesdon Manner and many others. She was also employed as a print designer for fashion brands like Alexander McQueen (2014-1015) and H&M (2012-2014).
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| 12 Moon Phase III scarf design |
Shan Jiang completed an MA at Edinburgh College of Art in 2004 and was a lead designer at ILoveDust from 2005–2012. He went on to become the third partner at London design company Shotopop where he worked with numerous high profile international brands and retailers including Nordstrom, Nike, Folio Society, Johnnie Walker and many more.
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| Pig Chicken & Cow |
Cléo shows AW2016 silk scarves and accessories in Paris Premiere Classe
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| Cléo SS2016 |
London-based Cléo is participating in Premiere Classe in Paris this week (4 - 7 March) to showcase the new Autumn Winter 2016 collection of silk scarves and accessories.
Christopher Lam of Cléo Ferin Mercury says their A/W16 collection is all about the secret winter gardens; pretty beetles, beautiful butterflies, hidden gems amongst tropical flowers arranged together with intricate paisley designs. Their new Look Book is presented in much the same way to showcase their beautiful designs to great effect.
“We are very pleased to welcome a small range of faux fur scarves and collars,” said Christopher. “These are available in three sizes and each piece is carefully hand crafted featuring Swarovski embellishments.”
The Cléo signature animal scarves also make a welcome return, available now in three sizes: large, small and mini, and come in different colours from vibrant neons to playful patterns too!
Here’s one of my favourites, the blue tiger long scarf that I had worn last season.
Their SS2016 collection, full of fun and with a nautical theme is currently available online.
Congratulations to Age of Reason for turning 5
Since their launch five years ago, Age of Reason have expanded their offer to
include not just scarves but also cushions and playful silk bomber jackets.
Designer and founder Ali Taylor Mapletoft, a former London
filmmaker, uses confident strokes of pen and ink to create striking
hand-rendered prints in her Brighton studio.
Here’s to Ali and Age of Reason for many more years to come.
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St Agnes Eve launch new collection inspired by flora and fauna
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| Photos above and below by Lucia Carpio for My Fashion Connect nGlobal. |
Click HERE to have a look.
Jacqui Sinnatt's hand-finshed scarves made in the UK - are treated as canvases for displaying her designs based on her own photographs taken from trips and visits she makes around the British countryside. The results are statements of her unique creativity, ranging from the bold and dramatic to romantic and intriguing.
Along with flowers and plants, wildlife and animals, she may spot found fragments that no one else would notice. She then rescale her photographs and images to create unique stories that bring her memories from her travels around Britain to a new medium. She captures these unique moments including experiences and adventures with writers, musicians, painters and other designers, while travelling through various parts of the UK, from Cornwall to Kent, from London to Scotland, through photographs and transfer them into digital imagery printed on scarfs.
Along with her scarfs, Jacqui has produced a catalogue explaining her stories and insights behind each scarf design.
In the picture below, Jacquis holds up her Nettlebed Blue scarf based on photographs she had made while strolling in the winter through the countryside surrounding the Oxfordshire village of Nettlebed and with the photographs she created a montqge of found objects.
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Jacqui explains: "I was walking with my brother-in-law, who asked why on earth I would photograph discarded debris, twigs and leaves. My response was 'everything' has its own beauty - and you never know when these images might come in useful," said Jacqui Sinnatt whose scarf designs can be found on www.stagneseve.com
Living near Kew Gardens in west London, Jacqui often goes to photograph the plants and discover new beauty in the old trees. On one visit, a peacock was encountered in the garden and provided inspiration for the Peacock of Kew design. "A close-up of his feathers, colours and textures inspired the scarf design," says Jacqui.
Here above is one entitled Exmoor Shale that Jacqui designed based on a trip to west of Ashburton with friends of a book club, after enjoying an evening of fine wines and gossips at a local bar followed by a morning walk on the moor. She said in her catalogue, "Visions of literary spirits past and present accompanied our windswept walk on Exmoor and I was inspired by the complex textures of rock and stone balanced by hints of a clear turquoise sky glimpsed through scudding clouds.
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Close-ups and magnified shots of plants and flowers inspired the kaleidoscopic design of another scarf shown above. According to Jacqui, "The spiky burrs in the Pricklehead Blue scarf design were found on the banks of the river near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. But when magnified they took on a whole new life reminding me of giant thistles found in the Scottish Highlands."
JACQUI SINNATT TOOK A DELIBERATE, NON-CONSENSUAL PICTURE OF MY NAKED BODY - DO NOT SUPPORT HER BUSINESS!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIn Feb 2021, I was contracted by David Mumby to model for his class @latymer_life_drawing on instagram, an Art Club for the parents of Latymer Upper School, a 21k per year London private school. We had a quick video chat a few days before, and he explicitly reassured me that my privacy would be upheld. That no one will take screenshots during the class.
This turned out to be untrue.
Within a few seconds of the first pose, as I was up close and naked to the screen, I heard the horrific sound of someone taking a screenshot. It’s the responsibility of the host to ensure the model is comfortable and safe at all times. This didn’t happen. Instead, I eventually heard myself making a very small, uncertain plea... ‘I don’t mean to be funny, but did someone take a screenshot?’
The person who took the screenshot was Jacqui Sinnatt of St Agnes Eve. She explained that she preemptively took a screenshot in order to retain the image because her internet is unstable. This is absolutely unacceptable unless you subscribe to a very dehumanising understanding of another person's right to privacy and bodily autonomy.
Just because there was no sexual intention behind the action doesn’t make it any less violating. It’s still a breach of my privacy and my consent. Jacqueline Margaret Sinnatt took a non-consensual intimate image of me. This entitled white woman took a screenshot of my naked body without my consent because her drawing mattered more than me as a person. Sinnatt studied at Central Saint Martin’s, runs a scarf business (St Agnes Eve) and co-founded a branding company (The Brand Scout). She’s no novice to the creative industries and knows perfectly well what she did was disgusting but choose to do it anyway. On International Women’s day, btw 🤷🏻♀️
It would have never played out like this in real life. Sinnatt took advantage of my vulnerability and lack of control, being online. No one should be running or attending life drawing classes when they cannot see the model as a human being with intrinsic rights to bodily autonomy, consent and privacy.
I emailed the school about this. Their devastating response was to protect Sinnatt by gaslighting me. They said Mumby, the host, claimed it was an accident, there was no intention to take the screenshot. Not only was it an accident, but that everyone there saw it was an accident. This is a lie: it was very deliberate, Sinnatt said so herself in front of the whole class at the time.
After I spoke about this publicly on fb and twitter, Sinnatt eventually reached out with a disingenuous apology. Disingenuous because when I asked her why the school is lying about what happened and to back me up against them, her only response was to distance herself and not get involved. She was only interested in getting me to stop dragging her online, and she wasn’t actually sorry.
Also, I wasn’t even paid for this traumatic experience. I didn’t see a single penny even though it was them that f*cked me up.
This same school is currently all over the news for allegations of their strong r*pe culture, as revealed by the website Everyone’s Invited. Why am I not surprised? If this is how they handle my situation, I am devastated to think about what they teach the children. 21k a year in school fees may invest in academic achievements, but cannot purchase a very basic understanding of human rights and compassion.
P.S.
You know what else worries me? That people will say ‘you put naked photos of yourself online, Why care if someone takes a screenshot?’
There’s a huge difference between me putting images of myself out there, and someone taking a non-consensual naked picture of me. There’s a huge difference between me choosing to do something, and someone secretly forcing the action upon me.
It’s called consent.