Antonia Beard

BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Surface Textiles

I am a bright ambitious textile print designer, demonsrating strong technical skills, seeking to innovate through process, inspired by production. Driven by discovery, Working in the print studio teaches me something new everyday, pushing me to develop my work to the next level. My approach is very hands on and adaptable, not limitied to 9-5 I push my self to achieve top results. Challenging my self at every level gives me motivation. Final Year Collaboration ‘Play becomes party - party becomes work - work becomes play‘ ~ Bauhaus Motto A final year collaboration between menswear student, Adrien Chen, and surface textile student, Antonia Beard. Inspired by the Bauhaus spirit, they started their final year journey with the Bauhaus motto in mind. ‘No longer can anything exist in isolation. We perceive every form as the embodiment of an idea, every piece of work as a manifestation of our innermost selves. Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.‘ ~ Walter Gropius After the fashion of Bauhauslers being true to themselves while researching and designing, Adrien and Antonia then delved into their own unique cultural background and life experience in searching for things that would best define themselves and their aesthetic. ‘Two crazy minds. One raging collection.’ The two first met during the second year collaboration project. The invaluable experience furthering their belief in team work in that they could focus on things that inspire them the most. So they decided to have some more fun together for their final year project. As a menswear student, Adrien has always been more interested in creating shapes and developing his idea on stand and patterns rather than the traditional drawing-then-making process. The shapes and silhouettes for the final year project were developed by playing around the Bauhaus geometric aesthetic and reinventing the traditional Chinese patterns. Being playful and unconventional are the only rules, but feel free to break. For the printing design side, Antonia combined the intensity of Bauhaus painting style and the excitement of light and music from her clubbing adventure to come up with strong and fanatical printing design. Being a proud prints student who believes in traditional handcraft and screen printing process, Antonia completed all the printing with her own bare hands. By overlapping her print design with painstakingly accuracy and with only cyan, yellow, magenta, she achieves something truly extraordinary. With both of them focusing on what excites and inspires them most and paying attention to each other’s progress, they’ve tried their best to realise their vision and ambition. This unique and raving mad menswear collection is the sum of their final year collaboration journey.