Aiden Davey
Fashion knitwear and knitted textiles
nottingham trent university
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Textiles - Knit
My location: Colchester, United Kingdom
Is smoking cool? ‘Behind the smoke: Fashion’s dirtiest habit’ exposes the outward facing negative impacts of smoking. These are exaggerated through fabrication and silhouette that appear to engulf the wearer, as the smoking habit does. An exploration of the amassing and staining that occurs within your body when you take up fashion’s coolest habit is glamorised, with inspiration from the 1990’s when heroin-chic was at its height. The use of bold colours, inspired by the effects of nicotine, combined with decaying, mutated knits emphasise this. Even though smoking is so deeply rooted in glamour the aftermath can be devastating.
