Future of Textile Fashion !!!!

Future of Textile by Jane Bowler

Textile designer with certain perceptive on her own. Eco-friendly ideas of recycled and reused plastic material to create an avant garde collection FUSION. I have been influenced by her work and been planning to connect with her and ask her to solve my queries about development of this collection. About which material she used to inflect this whole new idea of changing definition if rain coats.

Jane bowler is recent graduate from ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART , from where she done her Master’s in Mix Media. The collection was created during her final year of my MA at the Royal college of Art. The collection began by a series of experiments in which she fused, and melted various combinations of materials but later much lesser version in whole process. Her FUSION collection is been done with the process of stitch –free , combined with industrial techniques. Such as heat-forming and ultrasonic welding.the latter method involves high frequency ultrasonic acoustic vibrations to bind material together.

 “ I used to think that Rain Coats are just functional garment to protect us from Rain.” But now I cannot agree more with Jane. Bowler used plastic shower curtains, bathmats and rubber flooring. And she been making use of other re-appropriated and reclaimed materials from scrap projects, ranging from; plastic offcuts, plastic drinks bottles and pvc table cloths.

Definitely m more curious and infatuated with textile studies now. My question fusion is Eco-friendly ???  Fusion makes use of re-appropriated and recycled materials. She also follow a zero waste ethic, by making use of every plastic off-cut by remelting it into hoods/jewellery; as well as producing rubber moulds which are designed to be re-useable.

At the core of fusion’s high tech engineering is bowler’s belief that recycled product can be luxurious innovative and desirable. “Fusion is designed to make plastic fantastic for longer” No doubt on that.

Inspiration from Traditional Japanese Straw coats called MINO, which is formally used for same purpose as rain coat. Modern primitive aesthetic as highlighted in WGSN ‘s S/S 2012 macro trend.(Blink Blink) Jane Bowler.

 Through sumptuous color, lustrous gloss and natural fibres pushing boundaries of rain wear.She specially told  about her future continuation to follow an eco-friendly ethic in the fusion wearable range, as well as future projects.And she is currently working on creating a wearable range, based around the same aesthetics and processes.

Images Courtesy : www.janebowler.co.uk

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