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Feature: Lost & Found
For Parable’s second editorial, we had the privilege of interviewing Lost & Found creator, Ria Dunn. The following incorporates Ria’s responses to questions on philosophy, textiles and the creation of the wondrous paper jacket from the current AW2011 season.
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From the beginning, Lost & Found was a return to the modest and lasting. It is a label of subtlety and longevity, reflecting Ria Dunn’s movement away from disposable fashion, to a creative outlet where she could touch on purity and introspection. The label’s Tuscan surrounds are bucolic, and this is translated in clothes which carry the weight of history, thought and workmanship whilst remaining slightly askew – imperfections that tell of an older age of production and consumption.
It was the very tactile and sensuous nature of Ria’s work that lead her to fabric creation. The need for contrast and sensation – the dichotomy of rich and poor, of elegance and something undone – meant the work of Lost & Found could not be completed without new textile.
In the development of fabric and materials, Ria found a further outlet for expression. What was initially sparked by necessity soon became a way to progress concepts beyond small forms and details – to work and idea from its skeleton, from it’s literal and metaphoric fibre providing completeness in the development of idea into garment.
You can read the full article here.
For Parable’s second editorial, we had the privilege of interviewing Lost & Found creator, Ria Dunn. The following incorporates Ria’s responses to questions on philosophy, textiles and the creation of the wondrous paper jacket from the current AW2011 season.
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From the beginning, Lost & Found was a return to the modest and lasting. It is a label of subtlety and longevity, reflecting Ria Dunn’s movement away from disposable fashion, to a creative outlet where she could touch on purity and introspection. The label’s Tuscan surrounds are bucolic, and this is translated in clothes which carry the weight of history, thought and workmanship whilst remaining slightly askew – imperfections that tell of an older age of production and consumption.
It was the very tactile and sensuous nature of Ria’s work that lead her to fabric creation. The need for contrast and sensation – the dichotomy of rich and poor, of elegance and something undone – meant the work of Lost & Found could not be completed without new textile.
In the development of fabric and materials, Ria found a further outlet for expression. What was initially sparked by necessity soon became a way to progress concepts beyond small forms and details – to work and idea from its skeleton, from it’s literal and metaphoric fibre providing completeness in the development of idea into garment.
You can read the full article here.
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