Fiona Candy Email & Phone Number

Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

a-brand collaborative projects focus on the ways that people make, use and wear things, and how these create feelings of identity, define communities and generate social life.

School Of Art Design And Performance

Fiona's approach to teaching links workshop and studio based design and craft activities with practice and theory from other areas- such as anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, movement science. She teaches drawing "as a way of seeing" and a mindful practice; design approaches for printed and multi-media textiles; working with trend; using colour.

Working freelance from several bases including a studio at the Watermark, producing clothing design; colour consultancy; brand development; illustration; designing print and surface effects for leather, textiles and paper products. Clients: architecture practices, textile manufacturers specialising in bespoke interiors for hotels, paper based textile.

Working with various manufacturing companies including footwear. Commissioned as freelancer to design original print imagery for application to leather via digital technology. Also advising on colour, labelling, fastenings and brandings. Featured on DM’s branded footwear marketed throughout Europe and Asia.

Creative assistant to renowned British illustrator David Hughes; costume design and realisation for Leos Janacek’s opera 'The Cunning Little Vixen' at the 41st Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy, July 1998.

Senior Designer responsible for producing high fashion items close to season. Men’s and women’s seperates manufactured in the UK, Far East, Greece and Turkey. Sole responsibility for UK knitwear; close client liaison to develop individualised product ranges, including print. Direct liaison with UK and off shore manufacturers. Developed a new brand identity.

Own label high fashion knitwear: UK factory manufactured and outworked knitwear for men and women. Ranges sold to Joseph, Joseph Bis, Whistles, Paul Smith. Garments featured in Honey and Vogue magazines.

Ba Hons, First Class, Printed And Woven Textiles

Ma, Fashion And Textiles