A twenty-year career in the fashion industry, eighteen living between the UK and Bali
Eventually moved beyond fashion-related activity towards the deeper relational connections between people and their environment (Williams, 2018).
Welcome to my industry* responsive portfolio site
Industry and living experiences influenced my practice, which led to a revision of fashion design practices, techniques, and critical outcomes towards design-led research whilst drawing on early training in pattern recognition and fashion as an embodied practice that is both creative and communicative
* Industry responsiveness means moving away from extractive business models and fostering the possibility of positive enterprise for people and the planet.
A design anthropological lens
The intersection of fashion and colonialism
Geo-political history permeates epistemologies and ontologies and manifests through creative practices such as design. Exploring the intersection of fashion and colonialism asks social questions about creativity, humankind, and more than humankind. A 'between' positionality can expand our understanding of ethical and artistic dimensions of social change through mobility and possibility.
Photo credit: Press for earth 33 (by Britta Boyer) 1997
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Complex Textile Systems
Complex textile systems, such as exploring loom ecologies and specific plants, fibres and dyeing processes, can illuminate the lost connection between what we wear and what we grow. This shift in perspective, from fashion as a mere adornment and signifier of social mobility to fashion as an agent of change and social responsibility.
A video depicting the process of body mapping as sensory cartography. Boyer, Britta (2022). Sensory cartographies. Loughborough University. Media. https://doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.21065992.v1
