Talk Review: Vivienne Westwood at London Design Festival by Ruby and Jean

Soft Thoughts

Talk Review: Vivienne Westwood at London Design Festival

In our second episode of Soft Thoughts, Ruby and Jean review the Collect 2019 show at the Saatchi Gallery, which showcases craft of all materials and techniques. Soft Thoughts is a textiles podcast that is flexible, twisting and soft, just like the myriad of textiles we love and wear and see in our every day lives. We want to chat about textiles, with people we know, people we don't know, and everyone in between. We want to be accessible and academic, silly and a wee bit ridiculous, an attempt at bridging the gap between those that practise textiles and those that wear them - the every day and the artists!

02: Collect 2019: Softness is Craft

In the first ever Soft Thoughts, we welcome Freddie Robins! Robins uses juxtapositions between how knitting is and could be seen, unravelling preconceptions of femininity, motherhood, death and the body, and twists the soft into evil and back again, imbuing a sense of power in using metaphor in knitting. As Catherine Dormer, artist, has said, "Robins offers a challenge to the notion of knitting as a passive, benign activity." Soft Thoughts is a textiles podcast that is flexible, twisting and soft, just like the myriad of textiles we love and wear and see in our every day lives. We want to chat about textiles, with people we know, people we don't know, and everyone in between. We want to be accessible and academic, silly and a wee bit ridiculous, an attempt at bridging the gap between those that practise textiles and those that wear them - the every day and the artists!

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Talk Review: Vivienne Westwood at London Design Festival

02: Collect 2019: Softness is Craft

01: Freddie Robins: Softness is Power