I have worked with Chelsea for several seasons, developing special pieces for her seasonal collections. With an avant-garde aesthetic sensibility and an affinity for unconventional anti-fit silhouettes, I’ve enjoyed the creative challenges that these projects have allowed me to explore through technical design and patternmaking.
Draping the Palace jacket
The Palace jacket first muslin cut pieces
Palace jacket first muslin fitting
Palace jacket campaign imagery
Palace jacket photo from a boutique that carries the line
Developing the Petra Top, and (eventual) Tabea dress. This was a loose concept presented to me by Chelsea, she was open to however I thought it should be executed, she just wanted a top that had 2-3 big ties on it. This was my first mock up of the tie placement.
The Petra top pattern once I worked out how to construct it.
Petra top first muslin
Petra top fitting
Petra top lookbook image
Pattern card hand off for the Petra top
Petra top sister style: Tabea dress development
Fitting the first Tabea dress - it felt too fussy and covered-up. We decided to just adapt the Petra top into a dress instead of proceeding with this idea.
Creating the shirt-tail hemline for the Tabea dress by extending the Petra top panels.
We decided for the dress version, it needed one additional waist tie so it didn't feel like an empire waistline.
The Tabea muslin in process
The Tabea muslin in process
The first Tabea muslin
Notes for the factory identifying each pattern piece for this complex style.
Tabea patterncard
Tabea dress - a best-seller which was added to the core collection as an evergreen style after this season.
The Tabea dress
The Tabea dress
First proto of the Tower jumpsuit, inspired by a medieval undergarment worn by soldiers under their chainmail. We tried to find a sweet spot between something that felt extremely 2D like paper dolls, but still worked with the body's 3-dimensions by adding gussets.
The Tower jumpsuit
Pattern for the Swan top. Inspired by a previous season shoot where the stylist inverted an a-line skirt and wore it as a top with ties at the shoulders.
Swan Top
Draping the Bianca top pattern. Inspired by the way Barbie clothing floats on the doll's body.
The Bianca top
Fitting a dress inspired by nautical sails and tarps.
Cecile dress development
Cecile dress
A bag to match the Tabea and Petra
I also patterned and developed Chelsea's wedding dress!
Chelsea at her dress fitting
Chelsea in her custom wedding dress
Coast top
Lyon dress
Maude top