Meet Poppy Poulter─BA Fashion Design Womenswear Graduate From Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design
I am interested in the worlds of dreams and sleep; the way that they live in parallel to our lives. Dreams for me have been a method of working though anxieties, ideas and fantasies all my life.
They are as important as reality.
This was the starting point for my collection research.
An image that encapsulated these feeling's for me, was the image of Man Ray’s Mannequin.
The simplicity of the mannequin, hardly clothed, expressed the vulnerability of dreaming and how exposed we can be in our dreams.
Although this also could be reminiscent of a nightmare, the anxiety dream where you are standing, naked, clothes around your ankles, on a stage.
The hoop around her legs felt restrictive, and in my dreams, I seem to always be pulled back by something, you know that you have a goal, but you can’t quite reach it, or you are running, but your legs won’t move fast enough.
I liked this idea, That the limitations of the body are a reminder that you are in a surreal space.
This influenced by material choices of paper, alongside a wish to align with the Surrealists’ ideals of using found objects.
By fusing the fabric to papers and cards I was manipulating the fabric and changing the quality to allow the rigid hoop to hold in one place but seamlessly transform into a tight fabric elsewhere, behaving normally.
This together with the use of glass reflected the feeling of where things do not work as they should, are not what you first expect them to be."
