Marie Gallagher

BA (Hons) Fashion Contour

| ABOUT | Lingerie specialist with a focus on design and branding. Graduating with strong market and branding knowledge, a creative design style and technical product understanding, I am able to bring these elements together to create directional concepts. I aim to offer the consumer underwear that she can engage with as she does her outerwear and has a fashionable approach, challenging traditional lingerie styles. My aesthetic is subtle yet innovative – a focus on impactful silhouettes with intricate detailing, using a combination of sheer and opaque fabrics to create a balance between the body and garment. Varied experience and education within the product specialism allows me to transcend seamlessly between a commercial outlook, luxury positioning and couture style to bring a unique creativity to lingerie. | GRADUATE COLLECTION | The collection is inspired by Tereza’s character in the novel ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ by Milan Kundera. The range tells the story of her moments of ‘lightness’ and ‘weight’ through use of fabric, silhouette and colour. Resin castings grow out from seam lines that alter the body’s silhouette, exploring the answer to Tereza’s question, “if various parts of her body began to grow and shrink and [she] no longer looked like herself, would she still be Tereza?”. | LCF BA SHOW 2013 COLLABORATION | Winner of the Innovation Award for the collaborative collection with Rebecca Morter and Helena Dillon. Design concepts from the graduate collection were reinterpreted using laser cut Perspex and a dense gridded quilting. Finished in all black with visible zips the pieces have a striking and powerful look. | IMAGES | 1,3 (LCF BA Show 2013) Womenswear and Millinery by Rebecca Morter
 Accessories by Helena Dillon
 Photography by James Rees
 Creative Direction by Rob Phillips
 Beauty by Pace Chen
 Model - Ellie Jackson at Select Model Management (Verve)

 2,4,5 (LCF BA Show 2013) Womenswear and Millinery by Rebecca Morter
 Photography by Josh Jones
 Beauty by Marie Bruce
 Model - Cami at Leni's Model Management

 6,7,8 (LCF BA Show 2013)
 Womenswear and Millinery by Rebecca Morter
 Accessories by Helena Dillon Via - www.vogue.co.uk 9,10,11,12,13 (Graduate Collection) Photography by Yuvali Theis Beauty by Minkyung Kim Models - Sinziana at Select Models & Magda at Premier Model Management | PRESS | http://www.girlsonfilmzine.co.uk/editorial-yuvali-theis/ http://kit-magazine.com/fashion/issue-two/gosh-golly-miss-molly/ http://showstudio.com/blog/post/lcf_presents_their_2013_ba_graduate_show http://idolmag.co.uk/blog/london-college-fashion-13-ba-graduate-show http://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/autumn-winter-2013/ready-to-wear/london-college-of-fashion-ba/full-length-photos/gallery/1004093 http://www.fashion156.com/daily-blog/london-college-of-fashion-class-of-2013-catwalk-show/ http://africafashionweeklondon.com/africafashionweek/london-college-of-fashion-show/ http://h-i-n.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/after-performance.html http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/fashion/2013/07/02/lcf-shows-off-design-talent-in-shoreditch/ http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/fashion/2013/07/09/lcf-class-of-2013-marie-gallagher/