Jewellery / Accessories / Fashion
Charlotte Daffern
Charlotte Daffern is a hybrid crafts practitioner based in Birmingham, UK. Since completing her jewellery and silversmithing MA at Birmingham’s School of Jewellery, she has continued to develop jewellery and costume under her own label. Recycled fabrics and findings are used wherever possible to create stuffed components for her designs. Pearls and ready-made objects are also re-used to create eccentric, wearable pieces.
Charlotte begins her design process by identifying visual symbols that can be transferred into cloth. These are deconstructed, repeated, multiplied and explored through scale and positioning on the body.
Her creations aim to invoke nostalgia of the childhood dressing up box. She hopes that when people wear her pieces their childlike sense of fun and freedom is renewed.
The current collection of costume and jewellery entitled ‘Acid Housewife’ will travel to the US to form Charlotte’s first solo exhibition in September 2010.
My portfolio
Black polka dot ribbon and spatula head piece with rolling pin necklace
Black Rolling pin on black chain. Materials: Wood, Iron, enamel.
Textile based brooches in stripe and gingham fabric. Materials: Cotton, polyester stuffing, nylon.
Polka dot fabric teapot pieces on pearl chain fastened with buttons. Materials: Cotton, polyester stuffing, silk, glass pearls, vintage/recycled buttons.
Red and white stripe padded necklace with strung pearls and button fastening. Materials: Cotton, polyester, nylon, flass pearls, silk, vintage/recycled buttons.
Neon stripe bangle and mint green ditsy polka dot bangle. Materials: Cotton, polyester.
Teapot spouts and limb constructed in textiles. Materials: Various fabrics recycled and new, polyester, cotton, embroidery thread, webbing tape, D rings.
Stacked teapot bases constructed into fabric headpiece. Materials: Recycled fabric, cotton, webbing tape.
Stuffed textile and plastic seive neckpiece. Materials: Cotton, polyester, webbing tape, ready made seive.
Life size legs constructed and manipulated in recycled vintage fabric. Materials: Vintage fabric polyester, cotton.
Press
Amelias Magazine
Interview with Charlotte Daffern
Marica Blog
Fashion, art and lifestyle blog
Apparat
Contemporary jewellery blog
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