Elin Manon
Grey Sheep
Location
Carmarthenshire / United Kingdom
University
middlesex university
Graduation year
2017
Main Manufacturing Countries
Elin Manon is a designer specialising in knitwear, repurposed clothes and materials from unusual sources. The brand values ideas surrounding material culture, social class, sustainability and ultimately a sentiment towards clothing. Clothes that can stand the test of time through our human emotions. challenging our need for complete newness. She purposefully shows construction details to eulogise the maker of the clothes and uses images relating to popular culture and the home. Hand crafted textiles are at the forefront of her designs, with a culmination of various techniques including hand e-wrapped knit, embroidery and jacquard, patchworked together with different wovens to create her aesthetic.