Tag: dressmaking

Hawthorne & Heaney Visits Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion

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When a major fashion exhibtion comes to London, we love to go and see what it is all about and the Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion Exhibition currently on at the Victoria and Albert Museum does not disappoint. Based in the fashion and textiles section of the museum, the exhibition goes through from the beginnings of Balenciaga […]

Hawthorne & Heaney on our Dress Making Project

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In the studio we like to continue to challenge ourselves and push to create something new with our skills, so at the end of last year, we set ourselves a bit of a challenge to create a dress to wear to the BTBA Festival Dinner in February. Like with all create processes, it started with […]