TATIANA LESHKINA

I discovered Tatiana's work while researching for a recent project. In this series of photos I have chosen I was drawn to her stark locations portraying isolation and the way she juxtaposes already beautiful images together to create something even more spectacular, ‘communicating Tatiana's understanding of the body as a vessel for the soul’ The balance of strength and weakness created is astonishing. Utter perfection.

THOMAS TAIT

I have been a huge fan of Thomas Tait since seeing his first MA show in 2010, but for a theory project I have been looking more into his designs. Although Tait has shown two more collections since his Graduate collection, this first one has to be my favourite. I became immediately obsessed with his play on weights of fabrics, and in particular his specific focus on an exaggerated bone structure and precise cutaways, which he says came about as a result of studying form and proportion. The silhouettes were somewhat fragmented and create the illusion of protruding hips and shoulder blades, becoming clear of his fixation with certain parts of the body, in particular shoulder blades and pelvic bones. Tait’s colour austerity focuses attention on the form of the garments.