Outer 2023 Lookbook

design by Outer

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Designer

Textiles

Collection

Accessories

This Lookbook presents Outer’s 2023 debut collection, which has been presented at the runways of Cairns Fashion Week 2023,, Australia, and New York Fashion Week 2023 (Times Square), USA.

Designer Simone Z Leao (aka Outer) is a textile and mixed-media artist and designer based in Australia.

Her creative work focuses on the space that separates the inside and the outside of an individual. This layer carries the tension between the private and the public, the uniqueness of the individual and the collectiveness of the society and the environment in which they are immersed.

Clothing and fashion are intrinsic elements in that space, and with them people can expose, hide, express themselves or impersonate their alter ego.

Textiles Outer starts her creative process in fashion through the design of textiles.

Her work transposes some of her artwork, mostly pencil drawings on canvas, into patterns and prints onto fabric.

Outer also experiments with the creation of three-dimensional textures on textiles by combining traditional fabric manipulation techniques, such as smocking and shirring, with her own fabric patterns and innovative new perspectives.

Collection Outer’s fashion design comes to life as a response to her textiles’ patterns and textures,.

From the textiles, Outer follows on an unconventional sculptural process of garment construction.

model: @saskiabooth_

Making use of folding, draping, and pattern alignment, with minimum seams, she aims to create elegant and comfortable garments which enhance the visual power of the textiles and the story telling behind them.

Scar Dress

Mask Dress & Watch Stockings

model: @harmony__gracee

Textile patterns based on Outer’s artistic drawings

model: @gylly_ambrum

Together Dress,

Random Top & Shorts

A play with random textures and symetric patterns model: @mardicunningham

model: @ellie_sabato7

Symetry Dress & Stockings

Tension Set (top & skirt)

model: @chloe_destiny_g

Outer’s explorations on 3D textures on textiles, plain & pattern

Tentacles Dress

model: @lee.young63

The creation of special textured textiles which look different depending on the perspective

model: @annikafrew

Clown Dress

model: @jariana.bleu

Chameleon Dress

Machiavelli Jacket

Duality or deception?

Two colours, two textures, two sides ...

Accessories Outer expands her fashion creations using her textiles patterns and textures to accessories, including unique necklaces and handbags.

Contact Us Outer Art Studio Address: Queensland, Australia, 4569 Email: outer@outerartstudio.com Mobile: (+61) 466631553 Website: www.outerartstudio.com Instagram: @outerartstudio

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