In yesterday's post I explored an interesting way of applying crocheting to jewellery. Today I want to concentrate on knitwear. It's impossible to deny that there are some amazing knitwear designs out there that have radically reinvented traditional knitting techniques. The word "knitwear" doesn't imply anymore boring jumpers and accessories, but amazing structures that cocoon and wrap up the body while changing and transforming the wearer's silhouette, creating new shapes.
Alice Palmer is one of the designers who has worked on this body alteration process, adding to her knitwear an architectural edge. Her graduate collection was indeed inspired by her fascination with Morocco and with the architectures of Marrakech. In some cases the features of the Moroccan architecture from the almohade period such as arcs, square or cruciform pillars, geometrical decorations and sculpted arabesques of many Marrakech buildings were transferred by Palmer onto her knitwear, in others the designer took the traditional white, turquoise and blue of the zellij tiles and used them as the main palette for her dresses.
Spikes protrude from Palmer's knitwear, as if the wool had been transformed into the decorative motifs that ornate the minaret of the Koutoubia Mosque, the stuccowork of the magnificent Ben Youssef Medersa, the elaborate carvings of the Saadian Tombs and the pyramid-like battlements of the Almoravid Koubba. The fine carvings of some buildings and the rib designs of the domes and their interior support system composed of a square and star-shaped octagon, are replicated on skirts and dresses that turn into architectural pieces. It's only natural for a designer to be inspired by such a mystical and mythical place as Morocco, but Palmer has gone behind the mere inspiration, using architectural shapes to give her creations an intriguing three-dimensional appearance.
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