Friday 28 May 2010

Anna Leader


This is another of our commissioned portraits, this time a still life featuring a Coop knit, and bag by Pavel Ivancic, photographed by Anna Leader. Anna recently took part in an incredible exhibition, You, Me and Everybody else at the Print Space on Kingsland Road. For more of Annas work please see here

Thursday 27 May 2010

Corrie Williamson Jewellery





Corrie Williamson has been creating incredible jewellery for us since 2007. Stockists to have picked her up include Browns Focus and Kabiri. She has recently launched her own line of jewellery and is taking part in the upcoming London Jewellery Week.
Corrie Williamson jewellery for Cooperative Designs
available here
Portrait of Corrie by Amy Gwatkin.

Tuesday 25 May 2010

Alex Cunningham





Pictures:
Chess Cake pieces by Lily Vanilli
Chess Set designed by Alex Cunningham
Portrait of Alex Cunningham, the multi talented stylist and set designer, wearing our Grid Jumper. This is another portrait from our commissioned A/W 2010 series.
She also created the set for our S/S 2010 presentation in September: a giant Bauhaus chess set, see above.

Monday 24 May 2010

Susie is Bubbling


Lovely Susie rocking out our denim crochet legwarmers from SS10. Unfortunately these were showpieces, so Susie owns the only pair...... We are currently working on some exciting plans to make such crazy pieces available, so please stay tuned........

Friday 21 May 2010

More Hussein Chalayan






We were asked by Hussein to collaborate on some knitwear for his A/W09 collection. These were the resulting pieces.

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Portraits


This is one of the portraits we commissioned for our February presentation. Its a self portrait by Gillian Wilkins, long time Coop supporter, and fashion assistant at Vogue. She is wearing our Dasha dress from A/W2010.

Monday 17 May 2010

Eureka Night at the Design Museum



Last year we were asked by Let Them Eat Cake to contribute to an exhibition at the Design Museum to accompany the Hussein Chalayan exhibition. A video showcasing the contributing designers work was projected at the event and now has been nominated in the running for Creative Heads, which will debut in Cannes. Here is a screen shot of our "Scarf Wedding Dress" worn with Fred Butler accessories. See the full video here

Dazed and Confused Japan


Our crochet scarf from SS09 by the dream team: photography by Amy Gwatkin and styling by Elizabeth Cardwell. Nice to see Coop on boys.

Friday 14 May 2010

Da Londra Con Amore



This was an article about our Stefanel 50 collection in Italian Vanity Fair

Thursday 13 May 2010

The Endless Garment, The New Craft of Machine Knitting





We were asked to contribute work for this exhibition in Melbourne, Australia. Here are some photos of our space. Love the last picture, we were put next to Walter Van Beirendonck.

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Skeletons


Kate Nash looking great in the skeleton jumpsuit she commissioned us to make for her.

Tuesday 11 May 2010

WAD magazine


coverage of our A/W 2010 presentation

more Frock Me


Gemma Cairney talking us through her Cooperative Designs wardrobe in behind-the-scenes footage from T4s Frock Me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTJw7wwQ-FA

Monday 10 May 2010

Vice style


Our yellow knitted cotton bra in a shoot for Vice Style.
http://vicestyle.com/en/features/shoot/gallery/fluffy-clouds

Friday 7 May 2010

Teen Vogue


We went to New York last year. We decided to visit Teen Vogue and were welcomed by the ridiculously lovely Gloria Baum, fashion editor, who grabbed our wrists and told us she was our biggest fan. She showed us this shoot of our vest top she was including in the magazine. Still loving it.

Thursday 6 May 2010

more Atalanta Weller


The beautiful Atalanta Weller wearing Cooperative Designs A/W2010 long striped dress at the Hervia Bazaar launch in Manchester

Illustrations


This is an illustration from A/W2010. We printed it on canvas bags for the presentation in February.

Wednesday 5 May 2010

Human Alphabet


This is the human cooperative designs we created for SS09, with the styling assistance of Elizabeth Cardwell and photographed by Amy Gwatkin.

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Graphics


this was our jacquard design based on Gunta Stolzs 5 Chord weave. We used the final fabric in the Spring Summer 2010 collection.