CAROLE COLLET

Carole Collet was born in France (1969) where she studied textile design in Paris at Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliques Duperre (1987). She then pursued her studies with a Masters degree at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (1991) to investigate sustainable issues and design for her Major project.

Carole Collet is now Course Director, MA Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins College. Collet is a textile Designer and consultant in the area of textile print, R&D, trend forecasting, sustainable design, and intelligent textiles. Her consultancy work has included clients such as DMC, Boussac, Koji Tatsuno, Hoechst, Global consultants, Ian Ritchie architects.

Collet’s current academic research “Poetic Textiles For Smart Homes” is a design quest which aims at developing innovative textiles for the domestic market. By investigating issues of aesthetics and functions, the project aims at mapping out new possibilities for textile to take a leading role in redefining our intimate and emotional relationship with “smart homes”. The design process explores a combination of new technologies (intelligent textiles, new materials) together with more traditional and low techs methods of production to generate new “hybrid” designs. Sustainable values underpin both the design process and the design outcomes.

Recent exhibitions include:
“Tactile Shadows”, “Touch Me” exhibition at the V&A, June 2005 - (a collection of textile designs which explores the emotional values of tactility).
“Toile de Hackney”, Surface Design Show, February 2005 - (a collection of interactive domestic textiles which change colour in response to movement).
“Remote Home”, Science Museum, London 2003 - (an interactive installation produced in collaboration with Tobi Schneidler, Smart Studio, Interactive Institute, Sweden).

Carole Collet : http://www.textilefutures.co.uk

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  TANDEM SERIES – ARTS OF FASHION
• Academy of Art University / 491 Post St / San Francisco / Nov Saturday 12 / 10-11:30
  Fashion & Textile Futures / Tandem-Series

  Carole Collet (Textile designer & Head of the MA Design for Textile Futures / Central Saint Martins School – London), Tony Delcampe (Fashion designer for Annemie Verbeke & Head of the La Cambre-Mode(s) Fashion School – Brussels), will debate about the research and directions in fashion textile design: Collet will discuss new materials and new technologies as well as sustainable futures whilst Delcampe will talk about "craft futures" and the hand made for future fashion.
  

 

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