Amaranthe Frost

Amaranthe is a womenswear designer who has recently side-stepped into knitwear, wanting to apply her understanding of silhouette, drape and tailoring to it. Perhaps approaching knitwear in a way that is more traditionally associated with ready-to-wear, she has a unique and unusual point of view, blurring the boundaries between what is woven and what is knitted with the hope and want to find something new.

“House Four Six”

Growing up in a collector’s house I have always understood that collections speak volumes that could never be told in the medium of words. Collecting was never really about the accumulation of objects, but rather about the association of feelings, to build an archive of the experiences of one’s life, which in turn tells the personal story of the collector.

Going back to my family home with my sister I dressed myself in my mum’s collections: adorning myself with garments belonging to my mum, my granny, as well as others belonging to old neighbours and friends of the family.

Some dresses had been deconstructed to make something more wearable and perhaps more useful for that time. Some missed the midriff which had been used to make scrunchies. There were half-made trench coats: a woman’s work in progress.

This project is about women. Our wardrobes, how we dress, the female body and the observation of women dressing amongst women, from the point of view of the female gaze.