Philip McCallum
Fashion & Textile Design BA Hons
Glasgow School of Art
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Atelier - Pattern Cutting / Menswear / Textiles - Print
My location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Philip McCallum
First Name: Philip
Last Name: McCallum
University / College: Glasgow School of Art
Course / Program: Fashion & Textile Design BA Hons
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Atelier - Pattern Cutting / Menswear / Textiles - Print
My Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
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About
I'm Philip McCallum, 22, from Greenock, Scotland, and I graduated from the Glasgow School of Art. I am a menswear with printdesigner; my work focuses on cut, fabrication, traditional men's tailoring techniques like canvassing, and printing/dying methods like screenprinting. I take inspiration from various mediums, such as literature, moving image and photography, which I recontextualise into a fashion-based practice. A profound thank you to the technical staff, Ashleigh, Dan, Rachael, Emily, Lynsay, Sean, and academic staff, Tony, Christie, Cavan, and Keith, who helped me to develop my BA collection. I would also like to thank Laura, Vicky and the CAT Centre for digitally printing my linings and collaborators Helena Powell for all the silk and being the brains behind printing onto warps and weaving the scarf(s) and Alice Biolo for providing the nail rings.
This project came from reading "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and media critic. I was inspired by his concepts of the simulacrum, a copy of a copy without an original, signs, symbols, and objects used to address mass production/reproduction and reproducibility that characterise our current mass electronic media landscape and capitalist society. An overwhelming amount of content and production of goods defines our current consumer landscape. We consume these copies, signs, symbols and objects through mass media and consumer culture, which we collect and organise to form our identities and worldviews. I am interested in how we consume these copies, signs, symbols, and objects and how we use them to express who we are, consciously or subconsciously. This relates to fashion in terms of mass production, like walking into Primark and seeing the same t-shirt in six different colourways; a lot of garments do the same thing but have semantic differences, such as a t-shirt and a shirt both cover the torso, but one has a collar, cuffs, placket and so on. I would subvert this in my collection by manipulating details such as darts and looking at combining seam lines to create one-seam garments. I will also include print work related to music videos, film, and album covers as a literal nod to moments in time; craft is at the heart of my work, employing traditional men's tailoring methods and techniques such as canvassing.
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