Venetia Williams
Fashion BA Hons
Kingston School of Art
Specialisms: Womenswear / Menswear / Atelier - Pattern Cutting
Location: London, United Kingdom
Venetia Williams
First Name: Venetia
Last Name: Williams
Specialisms: Womenswear / Menswear / Atelier - Pattern Cutting
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Kingston School of Art
Course / Program Title: Fashion BA Hons
About
Venetia Williams is a multidisciplinary artist-designer brought up within a creative family on the gateway to the Yorkshire Moors. Absorbing the environment around her in which she grew up in awe of the abundance of space, the angelic tranquillity characteristic within nature contrasting between the industrialism aesthetic of her family.
Venetia Williams descends from a long line of established artists, designers and engineers, creativity has been imprinted in her DNA, Williams is a natural multi-disciplinarian. Her adept understanding of technicalities within construction developed from the age of seven when receiving her first sewing machine, triggering her fascination to explore the shapes in which to construct an outer shell of protection. She bridges sharp precision engineered through her specialities in couture, bespoke tailoring, and pattern cutting, with expressionism and experimentation seemingly devoid of boundaries.
The collection of Yorkshire-born multidisciplinary artist-designer Venetia Williams explores the disruption of hegemonic masculinity within tailoring through both soft and hard delicate gestures manifest in silk georgette, resin-drenched wool, chainmail, pewter, and spot-welded aluminium. The collection was inspired by William’s conflicted ancestry of eccentric artists and utilitarian-military. Williams juxtaposes her maternal artists' identities with the formality of her father’s military heritage, specifically the formal aesthetics championed by her Great-Great Uncle, founder of the Scouts Movement. Williams is at once in awe of the technicalities displayed in the clothing and aesthetics of power that he symbolises, yet also disgusted by the politics of domination that this represents. Upon this rife ancestry, Williams combines these divided worlds within a collection that stretches formalism and rigidity to disrupt the aesthetics of power through ornament.
