Knotted

A form of human storytelling, Daisy Day’s BA graduate collection “Knotted” explores the haunting outcomes of Child Marriage. She is sustained by the desire for a space within ‘fashion’ that enables social progress, critical thought, and communication, for all to engage with. Through forced passivity, the collection embodies an unsettling paradox of life and death. Depictions addressed through distorted silhouettes and textiles, inspired by uniform and aggression. An avid collector of research, this collection is based upon the unpredictability of collage work. Using a years' worth of collected photographs, fabric swatches and factual research, the collection of garments in “Knotted” has a strange, fresh archaism, which emphasises ‘bride’ as a noun, rather than a verb. Empathy being at the heart of Daisy’s connection with design, the designer aims to draw in an audience through personal alignments with the motifs and audible expressions of the collection, bells, for example.