design by Outer
1 Designer
2 Textiles
3 Collection
4 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.
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
model: @saskiabooth_
Mask Dress & Watch Stockings
Textile patterns based on Outer’s artistic drawings
model: @harmony__gracee
model: @gylly_ambrum
Together Dress,
Random Top & Shorts
A play with random textures and symetric patterns
model: @mardicunningham
Symetry Dress & Stockings
model: @ellie_sabato7
Tension Set (top & skirt)
Outer’s explorations on 3D textures on textiles, plain & pattern
model: @chloe_destiny_g
Tentacles Dress
model: @lee.young63
Clown Dress
The creation of special textured textiles which look different depending on the perspective
model: @annikafrew
Chameleon Dress
model: @jariana.bleu
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
Follow us @outerartstudio
