London Design Week- Chelsea Harbour

Walking the Pink Carpet at LDN Design Week 2014

I was invited to the Trade Preview of London Design Week where some of the most inspiring interior design companies exhibit and showcase their latest collections, along with industry presentations talking of whats on trend for the up coming seasons.

View from the Tatler Magazine Cafe within the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour

The event reflects the dynamism, ingenuity and genuine passion for design today (including lots of British Class) and has plenty to offer whether you are a fan of classic contemporary, an admirer of cutting-edge cool or just keen to seek out something innovative or unusual.

It was such a great opportunity to make some new contacts within the interiors market and not to mention how inspiring it was...

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Scottish Variety Awards - Artnthat Matt Russell Textiles Feature

I am so pleased to be featured in the Wishaw Press this week, featuring my nomination as "Best New Designer" at the Scottish Variety Awards 2013 with Capital Fm. Its so great to be recognised for my Textile Design work in the place where I grew up. 

The article was also promoted on the Daily Record website, where you can read the full article here.

Matt Russell Nominated for Best New Scottish Designer at the Scottish Variety Awards with Capital FM

I am delighted to be nominated for Best New Scottish Designer at the Scottish Variety Awards with Capital FM.

Please Vote for Matt Russell Textiles to Win!

 http://www.capitalfm.com/scotland/events/scottishvarietyawards2014/

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Scottish Fashion Awards 2013 - Graduate of the Year 2013 Nominee

Walking the Red Capet.

I feel so honoured to be nominated for a Scottish Fashion Award 2013 as Fashion and Textiles Graduate of the Year selected by the worlds leading fashion houses, the most renowned and respected fashion publications and the leading figures in the fashion and textiles industry.

The 8th Annual Scottish Fashion awards took place at the home of Scotland in London, Dover House. Hosted by TV personality, host of MTV & Im a Celeb, Laura Whitmore.

The evening progressed to London's most central venue - 8 Northumberland where we enjoyed a glorious Scottish Banquet & Champagne and Whisky Reception before a glamorous after party at Whisky Mist, Mayfair.

Meeting the amazing Stella Tennant and Kim Young Seong.

I had the pleasure of chatting to the inspiring Stella Tennant and Kim Young Seong (Chanel) who accepted the award for international designer of the year in place of Creative Director Karl Lagerfeld - they were so appreciative of the Scottish textiles industry and a real inspiration to talk to.

Feature of my collection as "On Trend" for the coming season in the Official Magazine. 

It was such a fantastic event celebrating the vast wealth of Scottish talent and position that we hold within the fashion and textiles industry, I am so honoured to be recognised for my contribution and to be part of such a prestigious event in the fashion capital. 

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Pure London & Zandra Rhodes Catwalk Show.

I had a fantastic few days at Pure London 34 where I was able to explore the UKs largest and most influential buying event, with over 1000+ brands.
I attended the show as an shadow buyer and scout for a clothes and accessories company which gave me such a useful insight into the buying process, I was also lucky enough to attend WGSN trend seminars as well as the Catwalk show of British Fashion Icon, Zandra Rhodes.

I assisted Rhodes at Paris and London Fashion Week and it was fantastic to meet her again and hear the inspiration behind the designs of her latest collection presented on the catwalk live at Pure.

Pure London 34

Zandra Rhodes discussing the catwalk show

Zandra Rhodes Catwalk show - Pure London 2014

My Pass and gift bag from the Trade Show 

Matt Russell at New Designers 2013 - Business Design Centre, London.

Thank you to everyone who visited my stand T28 at New Designers 2013, I had such a fantastic week and met so many amazing contacts. 

I am now available for freelance print design, and I am enthusiastic to engage and work within the fashion, textiles, and creative industry. If you would be interested in my services or for more information contact me here. You can also view my experience and full cv here.

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Graduate Collection & Artnthat Studios Launch Night

Im so pleased to announce that my graduate collection is now launched. 

My collection was launched at 7pm on Friday the 14th June 2013 at Grays School of Art Degree Show in Aberdeen. My launch night was sponsored by the amazing Mens Hair Salon "The Mens Emporium" and they put on such a fantastic array of beverages for my VIP visitors. 

My graduate collection can now be viewed on my posts below as well as purchased here. 

I am also exhibiting at the Grays School of Art Degree show on the 15th-23rd of June in Aberdeen and at New Designers  Exhibition in London on the  26th -29th of June 2013 - Come along and visit me if you can! 

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Artnthat - Matt Russell's Graduate Collection - 6ft Printed Fringing

As a development from my screen printed fringed lampshade seen here I decided to push my limits and work with a much longer length of fringing for the use in the fashion and interiors market.

I have had such a fantastic response and a real sense of awe and appreciation at the effort and lengths I tackled in printing on-top of the finging.

Printed Fringing                    - Matt Russell 
Photography                            - Chris Henderson 
Make-Up Artistry                   - Chloe Marie Watt
Model                                         - Aroosha Nekonam

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Artnthat - Matt Russell's Graduate Collection Part 2 - T-Shirt Menswear Collection

My honours year collection is the result of detailed research and development into the topic of place and identity. For my menswear T-Shirt collection I used my tribal print designs and screen printed my T-shirts using innovative techniques such as embossing. Each T-shirt is handmade and printed by myself.

You can purchase a selection of my menswear T-shits  and printed trousers at my  online store   or order one of my designs via my bespoke ordering service email matt@artnthat.com 

T-shirt Design - Matt Russell

Model - Nathan Mellis

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Scottish Fashion Awards 2013 Nomination - Matt Russell Scottish Fashion Graduate of the Year Nominee.

I am so honoured to announce that I have been nominated for a Scottish Fashion Award, as Scottish Fashion Graduate of the year 2013. You can check out my full bio and all the nominees here.

The event, which will be hosted by style icon Laura Whitmore (MTV) on 9th October in London, recognises the most influential Scottish players in fashion, working in Scotland and around the world.

 It also provides an unrivalled platform for new and emerging talent hailing from Scotland and is attended by influential industry leaders, designers, models, retailers and celebrities and celebrates the best of what Scotland has to offer in fashion, design and textiles. A host of those such as Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders, Holly Fulton and Louise Gray who are establishing our fashion future - I cannot believe I will be walking amongst my Idols in the Fashion Industry.

Nominations were selected from leading figures in fashion. The finalists will be judged by an exclusive panel made up of professionals from the world's leading fashion houses, the most renowned and respected fashion publications and leading figures in style with winners announced at the glittering awards ceremony at the plush Dover House. Moving to London for the first time the invitation only awards ceremony will be made up of a nominee catwalk show and award presentation hosted by TV personality Laura Whitmore followed by a glamorous after party at a secret location.

It is such a privilege to be recognised within the Fashion industry and to be listed alongside my idols and be mentioned on Vogue, Elle and Drapers. 

It really has made launching my graduate collection on Friday the 14th June so much more exciting! 

My graduate collection will be launched on Friday the 14^th June at Grays School of Art  before being taken to New Designers Exhibition in London.

My online shop Artnthat studios will go live from 7pm on the 14^th June but I will keep you posted.

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Exciting things are brewing...

As you may have guessed from my recent lack of blog posts, things are becoming pretty hectic with my graduate fashion and interiors collection being launched in just over 1 month - Don't worry all shall be revealed very soon!

My fashion and interiors collection is to be launched and showcased at the Grays School of Art Degree Show in Aberdeen from the 15th - 21st of June and in the following week at New Designers in London from the 26th - 28th June .

As you can imagine I'm keeping everything TOP SECRET till the launch but until then I will allow you a " Artnthat blog exclusive" sneak preview of one of my graduate collection prints & fashion designs.

In the meantime you can keep up-to-date with my daily goings on in the studio via twitter @artnthat  or you can 'like' me on Facebook here.

"Perspective" My interim exhibition - A snapshot of my graduate collection so far...

This snapshot of my work is an insight into my research and development of the topic of 'Place'.

In depth, I have developed my own interpretations of landscape, mapping and my own recordings of travel. With Aborigine Songlines, Gilbert & George and Keith Haring as my inspiration, I have now begun to construct my own abstract vision of mapping out using the constraints of scale and the interaction within the contemporary interiors market.

You can read about my design process and the printing of my fringing in detail via my previous blog post.

The fringing worked extremely well as my first sample and I look forward to developing it further for my final degree show collection.
With the fantastic response that It received during the exhibition I'm looking to create more samples and branch into the fashion market with the fringing taking it in exciting innovative new directions.

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ARTnTHAT at The Scottish Fashion Awards 2012

My Complementary tickets to the event.

ARTnTHAT - Matt Russell Textiles attended last nights glamerous Scottish Fashion Awards, dubbed 'Scotland's Fashion Oscars', the annual event is one of Europe's leading fashion extravaganza's recognising global Scottish fashion talent and was hosted by the ever stylish and hysterically funny, Alexa Chung. 

Supermodels, fashion stars, celebrities, pop star performances, catwalk shows and the spectacular Swarovski finale runway show took place at Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium (or as we know it in Glasgow - The armadillo)

It was fashion at its finest and we were strutting down the red carpet, celebrating the best in Scottish fashion. We arrived to a buzz of glamour and excitement to the black tie event where the Fashion faithful came to celebrate their idols and up and coming designers.

I was ecstatic when my very own fashion idol Christopher Kane took the place of "Scottish designer of the year" ahead of the amazing Holly Fulton, as well as celebrities including Doctor Who actress Karen Gillan who won Scottish Icon of the year,and the ever elegant Made In Chelsea’s Millie Mackintosh.

There were also performances from 13 year old singer singer Tallia Storm, and the late Amy Winehouse’s goddaughter Dionne Bromfield. Check out my some of my pictures and photos of some of the award winners below.

Me & My VIP plus one - My mum.

Our delish drinks

Christopher Kane - Collecting his award

 SWAROVSKI finale catwalk show 

Christopher Kane - Scottish Fashion Designer of the Year

Alexa Chung - Wearing Christopher Kane

Stella Tennant - Scottish hall of Fame

Scottish Young Designer of the year - Hayley Scanlan

Karen Gillan - Scottish Style Icon

Dionne Bromfield - Wearing Holly Fulton  

Millie Macintosh - Made in Chelsea Star

Full List of Winners - SFA 2012

•  Scottish Designer of the Year – Christopher Kane

•  Scottish Young Designer of the Year – Hayley Scanlan

•  Scottish Textile Brand of the Year – Dashing Tweeds

•  Scottish Accessory Designer of the Year –William Chambers

•  Scottish Fashion Icon – Karen Gillan

•  Scottish Communicator of the Year – Faye Mcleod

•  Scottish Model of the Year – Tali Lennox

•  Scottish Retailer of the Year – Shhh-Oohs(Luxury Shoe Retailer Edinburgh)

•  Scottish Fashion Photographer – Jonathan Daniel Pryce

•  Scotland’s New Face – Kerry O’May

•  Scottish Graduate of the Year – Joanne Mcgillivary from Herriot Watt. David Black was also awarded a Highly Commended Certificate

•  International Designer of the Year (for use of a Scottish fabric) – Mulberry

•  Scottish Fashion Innovator – Brian Rennie, Creative Managing Director of Basler

•  Fashion Ambassador – Colin Mcdowell MBE 

Scottish Hall of Fame – Stella Tennant 

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