"What Thorogood has got to offer is pretty phenomenal cutting techniques and a remarkable eye for 3-D form. Combine that with his passion for futuristic shapes and experimental arts and you have a potent combination" Harriet Quick, Sunday Times Magazine.
Cult Fashion Designer Simon Thorogood will be exhibiting his new experimental sound and digital work in progress entitled Soundforms , and an anthology of past designs from various collections including Fragment/a from his recent year residency at the Victoria and Albert Museum and London College of Fashion.
Rising through the ranks of the 1990’s London fashion scene, Simon Thorogood was labelled by the fashion press as rising star of ‘Brit Couture’.
Graduating from Central St Martins in 1992, having completed both the BA and MA courses in Fashion, he established his bespoke womens wear label in 1998 where his signature has been the exclusive use of silk duchesse satin. The resulting engineered garments have been described as futuristic, medieval and ecclesiastical. He has exhibited worldwide at venues including The Fashion Institute, New York, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Barbican Centre and ICA, London.
Simon Thorogood is a designer and Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion who sees his work as continuing the thread of Couture as the traditional wing of innovation and experimentation within fashion. He aims to extend the framework of fashion, confronting its limits with architecture, music and technology.
Soundforms is part of an ongoing research project that is centred on finding systems, processes and programs in which to literally ‘grow’ fashion design in part derived from approaches in generative and adaptive technologies. The project is a close collaboration with composer Stephen Wolff.
Presented by the CCVA (Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts) in collaboration with London College of Fashion.
