'I’m not going to give in to that pressure. I think if you are clever enough and you are passionate enough you can make it work so you appeal to a broad range.’
Karen Casper a textiles artist who designs a wide range of clothing using different mix medias such as devore, quilting, embroidery, print, fabric manipulation, screen and embellishment to produce fine art pieces and commercial items. She has a passion for all things vintage.
Karen also creates handmade embroidered headpieces for special occasions like a wedding, christenings or the races. Each headpiece is unique incorporating vintage lace elements and hand dyed to co-ordinate with an outfit. In the past, Casper has used fairy-tale enchantment, childhood memories, vintage fairground and underwater world as inspiration.
Fairground Fun
A piece of
her work which I feel inspired by due to the brightness of the textile design
is the ‘Underwater love meets primal futurism’ which is a cape (Miss Coral)
reflects the 3D embroidered growth cultivation of the natural world using
traditional textile techniques of glow in the dark wire with ‘Day’ colours of
certain coral species.
Another
design which interests me as it is personal to the designer is a theme which
she was inspired by from a young age which she calls ‘Fairground Fun’. This
work consists of fairground mixed with vintage and distressed using
screen/digital print, embroidery, devore, and embellishment and fabric manipulations
to produce fine art pieces and commercial items. The piece is in the woodland
of a woman modelling the dress, taken by the photographer Andrew Farrington.
Karen Casper
as a textile designer focuses on the fashion design root, using the
environments fabric to create clothing shown on women with different techniques
of mix media. She has given me the inspiration to work with vintage materials
such as lace, which she uses a lot in her ‘Head candy& Bridal’ wear, to
expand on the fabrics using various methods.
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