Amelia Merrick

Amelia’s couture fashion collection is influenced by the beauty and chaos of broken pottery, combined with the reviving and enhancing Japanese Kintsugi technique. This is a process whereby ceramics are repaired using a gold lacquer. The design emulates the disarray of pottery being smashed and then reassembled and ‘repaired’ within a three-dimensional format, utilising embroidered fragments to create a garment.

Fragmented took inspirations from the ceramic collections of the V&A and the British Museum. She explored these through observational studies, using painting and drawing to capture the motifs and form of the objects.