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About me / About business or organisation:: Eclectic Clothing is a remade fashion label that produces one off hand made clothes and jewellery from recycled fabrics and reclaimed fabrics. As textiles is my passion I take a colourful and textural approach to my work, Up cycling garments destined for landfill and reworking them into extravagant one off statements pieces.

Career history / Company history:: BA (hons) fashion and textiles LJMU
2006 - I designed a collection for a catwalk show called 100% cotton at the maritime museum in Liverpool
2006 - my collection was also a part of a catwalk show at the Met Quarter designer shopping centre in Liverpool city centre.
2006 - I took part in the designing of clothes and presentation of a window display for River Island as a part of London fashion week
2006 - I won a completion in stitch with Madeira where I was awarded £1000 for my achievements in stitch work.
2007 - I exhibited my final collection at the Albert Docks in Liverpool
2007 - I exhibited at new designers in London
2007 - I was interviewed for the prestigious text print award in textiles.
2008 - I launched my own clothing label called Eclectic Clothing.
2008 - I exhibited at the Live and Let Live Gallery in Stourbridge
2009 - Sponsored by oxfam to produce a capsule collection for the catwalk.
2009 - currently in the process of applying to the art council to fund a collective exhibition and workshop project based around attainability.

At 18:18 on June 24, 2009, Ishwari Vijay Thopte said…: Hey there!
Im a Fashion Designer by profession and i plan to do my Masters in Design Management for Fashion Industries from London College of Fashion this fall. Your work background is quite colorful and interesting!
My research will mainly be in Ethical Fashion and Sustainable business practices. I was hoping to build contacts here. Can we be friends?

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