Bit of project catwalk gossip for you kids,Remember the Irish one from series three? the girl who went to Lsad?
well, after showing some of her new leather pieces in London. Exploring the stress of trauma on the body and mind through corsets and panelling. the above is one of the pieces, lady gaga has commissioned her to make 8 of the pieces to her measurements!!!!!
The following is an extract from an interview Una Burke did. You may note that Una was not her name on the show. she changed it. Una is what she is operating under now! She went on from the show to complete a masters in NCAD in fashion, anyway, here is the interview :
“I’ve always been interested in fashion and fine art, so I ended up making a collection of sculptural pieces based on the human body and trauma,” she says, explaining that each item, in ethical, vegetable-tanned leather, consists of some 300 pattern pieces, with 700 brass fittings held together with screws. “The leather is hand-cut, glued back to back and leather lined so you can see the inside construction.”
“I was interested in how the mind deals with trauma. What is really interesting is how you heal and change, and leather changes too, it has its own growth, so the whole thing goes back to fine art. Every decision regarding this collection came together in different elements of the concept, even in the way it was displayed in exhibitions,”
“it could be from domestic violence, war trauma, torture. I studied the psychology of war trauma and I myself had a childhood trauma which I didn’t deal with for years. I was constantly battling with it and didn’t have much confidence. After counselling, I became interested in psychology and the whole idea of taking a negative event and making something positive out of it”.
It’s amazing; I can’t come to terms with it. I’ve had around 33 requests from all over the world. The pieces have been in Dazed and Confused, have been photographed for Numéro magazine and five items have gone to New York to be photographed by Stephen Klein"
well, best of luck Una. we wish you well. and if rumour is to be believed, we could also be seeing Madonna in the clothes very very soon.......
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