TED Speaker, Specialist Consultant in Conscious Luxury, Wellness and Sustainable business practices…
Sustainable Practices and Advice for Luxury Brands.
Research
Corporate Mindfulness Packages
Visual Merchandising & Styling
Consultancy
FEATURED ON
Claudia Vardon | TEDxBrixton
Synaesthesia | My Superpower, My life in living colour
" ... Having Synaesthesia means I have a super heightened sensual awareness. I feel colour. I taste colour. I read the world through a riot of colours and patterns ... "
Syneasthesia: A Criss-Crossing of the Senses.
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Ted Talk with Kimono & Sound Waves
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The Story of Rice Print and Kimonos
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Sound Becomes Colour and Print
Consultancy
Design, Styling, Product Development, Visual Merchandising: Firetrap, Yves Saint Laurent, Hussein Chalayan, Pringles of Scotland, Givenchy, Adrianne Vittadini,
ASOS, Whistles, Woolworths and Ladybird brand , John Lewis, Harvey Nichols Kuwait.
Design Practice +
Collaboration: Mark Rigney - Logo & branding | Collaboration: M. Koester Architects - Co-Pop store interior | Lyon Airport chairs | Spitalfields Fashion Market
Collaborations +
Styling: And Images, Pop magazine, Elle Magazine, Islington Business Design Centre
Commissions +
Clemency - Bubble Prints | London Design Festival: Architecture Shirt | Well being week – Colour Therapy | Ted Talks – Synaesthesia | 3D Fashion Illustrations | 4D Fabric Art Work - Denim Canvasas
Wardrobe Mistress + Styling
YMCA Fashion Therapy | Personal Styling | Pop Brixton: Styling
Retail Projects + Visual Merchandising + Display
Visual Merchandising + Marketing Analysis | Harvey Nichols Kuwait | John Lewis | Marks & Spencer | Banana Republic | Forever 21 | Ladybird Brand
Future Projects +
Braille | Sound Waves | Jedi Jackets | Sratch n Sniff | Yogi jumpsuits
Retail Project
A year long project of setting up a Co-Operative Boutique Co-Pop, which was covered by the evening standard and won a small business award.
Ethics & Sustainability
Ethics and Luxury are questioned, what are they, how can they fit with fashion?
Can luxury brands embrace Ethics as ‘The Luxury’? This was my question in 2006, and it began to expand.
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a. A set of principles of right conduct. b. A theory or a system of moral values
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Sumptuous or extremely comfortable living or surroundings: lives in luxury
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Organic and fair-trade sourced fabrics are made into luxurious clothing with the processes gained from luxury brand artisans. Using local production, from retired craftsman from Burberry, Aquascutum and Dior in London to local artisanal tailors in Ghana.
Its seed was sown when Claudia visited a cotton farm and manufacturer in Ghana to see the production process. Cassava powder ( a delicious type of fibrous potato ) was used to strengthen the cotton threads, rather than chemicals. Organic cotton! Kinder to skin and people in the production team and the body’s wellbeing.
Afropolitan Street Food Concept - Heritage prints and Afro eccentricity in unique kimono designs.
KIMONO SHRUG - A SLICE OF AFRO ECCENTRICITY
African Heritage prints originating from 1880s offer a unique aesthetic due to their wax crackle background. Speaking to the interconnectedness of family life. A Visual language of culture, each print is named by local fabric traders from various Akan tribes, so sometimes the names differ. Ruminate on the Fabric of Life, tell your own story in an elegant Kimono Shrug.
London & Online
Nine Elms | London | Online
For enquiries, private sales, collaborations, commissions, all that good stuff!
Email: emethicaluxury@gmail.com
WhatsApp:+44 784 016 4555
