AMY frankie mOroney
Fashion Design BDes
National College of Art and Design
Specialisms: Sustainable Fashion/Textiles / Accessories / Fashion Illustration
Location: Dublin, Ireland
AMY frankie mOroney
First Name: AMY frankie
Last Name: mOroney
Specialisms: Sustainable Fashion/Textiles / Accessories / Fashion Illustration
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My Location: Dublin, Ireland
University / College: National College of Art and Design
Course / Program Title: Fashion Design BDes
About
My name is Amy Frankie Moroney, I am a multi-disciplinary fashion designer from Ireland, currently based in Dublin. Recently I’ve graduated with First Class Honours in BA Fashion Design from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). Industry experience with notable names such as Helen Cody, has helped hone my design and construction skills. Within the past year I’ve been invited to collaborate and exhibit my work with Searchlight Pictures, Disney’s “Poor Things”. My graduate collection titled ‘Sunken Remnants” ,has been named amongst ‘Irish Fashion Design Graduates to Watch’ as featured in IMAGE.
A daughter of a painter, dressmaker, a sister of an animator and filmmaker, the world of visual arts was a constant in my upbringing. Been challenged to question my surroundings and promoted to make, moulded me into finding fashion as my main practice. Stimulated by visual arts expanding sculpture, film, artefact, my fascination between the merger of art and design has always been apparent.
My design approach speaks to a surrealist conceptual sensibility, where innovative fabrications, sculptural extensions, and deconstructed tailoring, are key components.
My passion lies in distorting and disturbing traditional notions of dress, feeling the need to address the power behind fashioning the body as a vessel, toward highlighting political and social matters. Archival research and rediscovery of the forgotten moments in history underpins my design inspirations, noting themes of culture and identity. Explorative fabrication hints to the varied and unique skillset I use to design, deconstructing perceptions and manipulating the limitations of soft and hard material approach within fashion.
Sunken remnants [Iarsmai Baite]
‘Sunken Remnants’ is a cross-disciplinary contemporary, conceptual womenswear collection that is exhibitionist in nature. Rooted in Irish history, the work draws on the plight of Ireland during the recognised genocide of the Great Famine to highlight current issues such as the national cost of living crisis, rising levels of emigration, and the international use of hunger as a weapon in countries like Sudan, Yemen, and now Palestine. The intent of this surrealist design approach is to create discomfort and provoke dialogue surrounding these issues. Sculptural silhouettes and innovative fabrications project a ghostly, haunted aesthetic. Unconventional accessories made of wood and latex challenge perceptions of what fashioning the body can be. The entire collection challenges the perceptions of what fashioning the body politic can be
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