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Alison
Willoughby is an established and innovative textile designer, selling
and exhibiting her work both in Britain and abroad. Renowned for her highly
individual and hand constructed intricate skirts, she was initially known
as ‘skirtgirl’. However, she has since branched out into menswear
and womenswear, and more recently into shop and gallery installations.
Alison became interested in textiles whilst studying Foundation Art and
Design at Trowbridge College in Wiltshire. She started by experimenting
with pattern, working on different types of paper, using dyes, inks and
textures. It quickly became apparent that textiles was an area in which
Alison had great talent and it was suggested by her tutors she specialise
in the discipline at university. She was accepted into the Glasgow School
of Art to study a BA in Printed and Knitted Textiles and it was here she
was able to work with fabric, focusing on print techniques, knitting and
deconstruction, and incorporating haberdashery materials, such as mourning
pins from her grandmother’s attic, into her work to create interest
and pattern. On graduation, Alison went on to gain an MA in Constructed
Textiles Mixed Media from the Royal College of Art in 2001.
