Liam Leslie

@liam_j_leslie

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@ss_daley AW24 Abstracted bed frame sculptures created with Louis Gibson; crafted in a local workshop in Florence using reclaimed wood. The 8 sculptures here stood in Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio as though to represent the shared lived experiences of communal dorm living in the schools we reference, creating ‘Elliot’s room’. Image by @liam_j_leslie #ssdaley #pittiuomo #liamleslie
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Catch my new film ‘MA Fashion Turn to the Left’ premiering on @anothermagazine alongside interviews by @georgepistachio2 link in bio Shot over 5 days the film documents the 44 final collection presentations of the central Saint martins MA Fashion class of 2023. Many thanks to @fabiopiras for giving me such freedom, as well as Debbie, Mel and all the course team for their support. Documenting the intense final process in the making of their collections - many congratulations to all the students on their brilliant, fantastic work.
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Thank you to everyone who came down to the screening of my film Central Saint Martins MA Fashion ‘Turn to the Left’ last night. Shot over 5 days the film documents the 44 final collection presentations of the class of 2023. Many thanks to @fabiopiras for giving me such freedom, as well as Debbie, Mel and all the course team for their support. It was such an amazing experiment to have the premier at the #selfridgescinema . Documenting the intense final process in the making of their collections - many congratulations to all the students on their brilliant, fantastic work. @mafcsm @theofficialselfridges #mafcsm23 #lfw #londonfashionweek #aw23 #liamleslie
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1 year ago
Alongside the ‘fashion walks’ in Exploding Fashion we also explored the idea of the pose. Using archival still photographs as a reference for the motion capture performance, bringing them to life. Here the Vionnet pose animation references the 1921 copyright photographs Madeline Vionnet used to protect her intellectual property. From the collection of @madparis : #MadeleineVionnet , Summer 1921, digitally recreated by #CentralSaintMartins for ‘Exploding Fashion: From 2D to 3D to 3D Animation’ — On view until 05.02.2023 at @momuantwerp . ‘Exploding Fashion’ offers insight into the role of innovative pattern-cutting in key examples of twentieth century fashion design by reverse-engineering five historical designs by game-changing designers who were also innovative pattern cutters. Madeleine Vionnet (1876–1975) designed this dress in 1921. It is a prime example of how she experimented with fabric in three directions, exploiting length, breadth and bias. Vionnet’s practice inspired the #CentralSaintMartins research team’s thinking throughout the project, and helped them to investigate the translations between 2D and 3D in fashion. In order to develop a historicised walk for the Vionnet dress, the team drew upon surviving newsreel fashion films from the 1920s. Seeing the Vionnet dress in motion was a revelation. On the stand the Vionnet dress looks geometric and austere, but on a body in movement it becomes fluid, sensual and dramatic. 3D animation courtesy of @csm_news and @liam_j_leslie . #MoMuAntwerp #CentralSaintMartins #MoMuExplodingFashion #ExplodingFashion #MuseedesArtsDecoratifs #MuséedesArtsDécoratifs #BiasCut
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As part of Exploding Fashion we created a series of animations showing how the exhibited dresses would have moved on the body. Done with full body motion performance capture at Pinewood Studios, each dress was brought to life with movements specially choreographed to each time period. From the collection of @museumatfit : #Halston , Fall 1976, digitally recreated by #CentralSaintMartins for ‘Exploding Fashion: From 2D to 3D to 3D Animation’ — On view until 05.02.2023 at @momuantwerp . Roy Halston Frowick (1932–1990), known as Halston, refined eveningwear through radical economy of construction and a reductive aesthetic, exemplified by this one-seam dress designed in 1976. It is a three-ply column dress made of three layers of chiffon cut on the bias, hung from the bust line and knotted in a sarong style, worn with a separate, free-floating scarf. Halston designed with motion in mind. Disco inspired him to dress women in clothes that moved sensuously around them when they danced. When the dress was measured in the museum, the three layers of chiffon meant it moved around on the table, making it hard to handle. The simplicity of the pattern, and the apparent ease with which the dress hangs from the body, result from Halston’s rigorous command of materials. In remaking the dress, the pattern cutters found it the most demanding design of all. #MoMuAntwerp #CentralSaintMartins #MoMuExplodingFashion #ExplodingFashion #MuseumAtFit
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A portfolio update for 2023. Featuring #alexandermcqueen #burberry #walesbonner #bottegaveneta #liamleslie
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Delighted to announce our exhibition Exploding Fashion: From 2D to 3D to 3D Animation is now open at @momuantwerp in Antwerp. The project is a culmination of a four year research project at Central Saint Martins, produced with Alistair O’Neill, Caroline Evans, @miss_esme_young , Patrick Lee-Yow and @isabellacgv The exhibition reverse-engineers five historical designs by game-changing designers who were also innovative pattern cutters, digitally reanimating museum objects as moving images which visually narrate how they were once made and moved on the body.  Featuring remade garments designed by #MadeleineVionnet , #CharlesJames , #CristóbalBalenciaga , #Halston and #CommedesGarçons from the collections of @palaisgallieramuseedelamode , @madparis , @metcostumeinstitute , @museumatfit , @thekyotocostumeinstitute and @vamuseum Photos: @liam_j_leslie . Graphic design: @paulboudens . Exhibition design: @yuanchu_yi & @liam_j_leslie #MoMuAntwerp #MoMuExplodingFashion #ExplodingFashion #WhatsOn #AlistairONeill #CarolineEvans #PatrickLeeYow #EsmeYoung #IsabellaCoraca #PalaisGalliera #MuseedesArtsDecoratifs #TheMet #CostumeInstitute #MuseumatFIT #KyotoCostumeInstitute #vamuseum
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Central Saint Martins MA Fashion 2022

#centralsaintmartins #mafcsm22 #liamleslie #csm
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