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| Source: http://allwalks.org |
Last week Caryn Franklin visited Southampton Solent university to talk to students about the 'All Walks Beyond the Catwalk' campaign initiative that Caryn Franklin, Debra Bourne and Erin O'Connor work on to create more Diversity and body image awareness in the fashion industry.
It was a great, intellectual talk and I found Caryn Franklin a really inspiring lady of fashion and very interesting to engage with. I have seen her present at events such as Graduate Fashion Week and also the Canine Partners show i worked on last week and I do feel she can relate to her audience and likes to interact with people to create different opinions.
At the end of the talk we were all asked the question:
'How important is the body to your designs?'
We were all asked to write our opinions on a sheet of calico with our individual thoughts and answers to Caryn's question. The calico will travel to participating universities and colleges that are engaging with the 'All Walks' campaign within the universities practises.
Eventually once the students across the UK have written their thoughts on 'body image' the dress will be developed into a Couture dress and to be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2011! A very exciting thought that we would have all had a part in making the print for the garment, full of inspirational ideas about diversity and body image.
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| My comment on the All Walks piece of calico. |
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| All Walks sheet of calico from Southampton Solent students. |
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