Fashion Textile-Knit designer
Graduated at Central Saint Martins College, London.
Currently working at Givenchy, Paris, Woman Knit Design Department.

elenamunozgt@gmail.com

All content © 2012 Elena Munoz

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  Featured at Collezioni Trends Magazine nº 35

  March 2011 

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  Profile Knitwear report at Stylesight (Analysis and Fashion Trendforecast company), inside “Materials” section.

  June 2011

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  GUY LAROCHE A/W 2011 CATWALK

  3 knit pieces commissioned were showed at Paris Fashion Week, March 2011

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• VIEW MAGAZINE

  Samples featured at View Textile Magazine, Autumn/Winter Knit Forecast 2011/2012

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  Finalist at Texprint 2010.

  Knit Prize awarded, donated by Lyle & Scott and judged by Derrick Campbell CEO and Enid Brown.

  Exhibited my work at First View (London, July 2010), Indigo at Première Vision (Paris, September 2010) and Interstoff Asia Essential (Hong Kong, October 2010).

• Video made for the BA Textile Design final project by Elena Muñoz at Central Saint Martins College of Art.
  
  Directed, shot and edited by Rafa Pavon (www.watergun.tv)
  Production Assistants: Blanca Romañá, Andere Monjo, Marta Zuccheti
  Model: Anna Fukuda
  Producer, Make up artist and Designer: Elena Muñoz

  ORGANIC FORM

  My final degree project is inspired by organic architecture; that of human bodies and insects.
   
  The starting point of my research was the work of creative duo Lucy and Bart; the way they distort the body impresed me. Other artists such as Monica Machado and Victoria Encinas particularly caught my attention with their compulsive vision and mixed media sculptures. This pushed me to look further into the work of Santiago Calatrava, Gaudi and Hadid, all of them drawing forms from the human body and the natural world.
   
  Inspired by the patterns on insect’s bodies -especially those found on beetles and the never-ending varieties found on insect’s wings- I worked on transparencies and layers, trapping thick yarns inside thin yarns and intertwining them with bulky cables.  The result was to emulate the way textures of muscles, fibers and veins merge to create an organic system.
   At the same time, the colours clashing with fluorescent highlights unveiled the body’s inner flows.

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