My name is Ellie Vallely, and I am a Scottish designer. My work is playful, nostalgic and colourful, and is underpinned by great attention to detail and quality manufacturing skills. I have just handed in my final collection at Brighton University, and am looking forward to moving back up to Edinburgh to develop my practice and to contribute to Scotland’s creative industry.
Concept driven yet functional, my garments are inspired by playful nostalgia and naivety of shape. This focus on play is essential: my graduate collection focuses on juxtaposing memories of Leith Waterworld with the 2014 Harvest Skateboarding takeover session of an abandoned pool. This interest in play is routed in my understanding of women’s role in fashion: I look to create work that embraces women as active contributors who use fashion to express their agency. I further explored this theme in my final year dissertation, comparing 1970s feminist Magazines to contemporary magazine Rookie.
My research has a global outlook and I am interested in Australian and African designers particularly. Spending time in both of these continents has contributed to my aesthetic, and has increased my knowledge about prints and textiles. Music also helps to mold my work, female artists such as Sui Zhen, Hinds and Christine and the Queens really inspire the moods of my collections and set the tone for ‘the girl’ that I am designing for.
I have just launched my label SQUINT with my first collection available December 2016.
Questions, collaborations, commissions? Please get in touch: [email protected]
www.instagram.com/squintclothing
Concept driven yet functional, my garments are inspired by playful nostalgia and naivety of shape. This focus on play is essential: my graduate collection focuses on juxtaposing memories of Leith Waterworld with the 2014 Harvest Skateboarding takeover session of an abandoned pool. This interest in play is routed in my understanding of women’s role in fashion: I look to create work that embraces women as active contributors who use fashion to express their agency. I further explored this theme in my final year dissertation, comparing 1970s feminist Magazines to contemporary magazine Rookie.
My research has a global outlook and I am interested in Australian and African designers particularly. Spending time in both of these continents has contributed to my aesthetic, and has increased my knowledge about prints and textiles. Music also helps to mold my work, female artists such as Sui Zhen, Hinds and Christine and the Queens really inspire the moods of my collections and set the tone for ‘the girl’ that I am designing for.
I have just launched my label SQUINT with my first collection available December 2016.
Questions, collaborations, commissions? Please get in touch: [email protected]
www.instagram.com/squintclothing