jolie laide :
(unconventionally attractive, literally means "pretty" and "ugly" at the same time)
Exploring my relationship with Dublin, the place I grew up in through the research of urban landscapes and brutalist architecture.
Using knit as my main medium as I feel a sense of connection to it by the practice being passed down through generations of my family and textiles being a symbol of femininity, I create a contrast by combining it with masculine considered industrial materials such as rope and rubber.
It is important to me to create that contrast between the hard materials used in architecture and the soft materials used in textiles, to find the beauty in something considered ugly.
The contradiction between the modern design and traditional Irish textiles, the dull and bright colours, and the angular and delicate textures.
This serves as an architectural piece engineered for the movement and construct of the body.
LOOKBOOK
FILM SHOOT @ PHIBSBOROUGH TOWER
