odd one out knitwear

Grey Sheep

instagram.com/the_odd_one_out_design

Location

barcelona / spain

University

felicidad duce design and fashion school

Graduation year

2013

Contact

My name is Alicia and I'm ODD ONE OUT's brand founder. I have always being a creative person and since I was a child, I have loved handcrafts and design. I have always dreamed about being fashion designer but when I was eighteen I decided to study Computer Science Engineering. A couple of years later I decided to start with my Fashion Design studies and combined them with my Engineering studies.

I have done internships as Design Assistant in Josep Font, Lydia Delgado and Guillermina Baeza, but was in my internship at MANGO's Knitwear Quality Assurance where I discovered my real passion: KNITTING. I noticed that knitwear increases the creative possibilities as you can work on textures and textile design so I started learning hand-knitting and crocheting but later hand knitting machines caught my attention.

That takes me to just right now, starting with my own knitwear label where I mix all the techniques and knowledge I have acquired during this last five years. My aim is to provide a different, sustainable and contemporary vision to knitwear design and production processes, resulting on timeless, cared design, high-quality and long-life garments.

Latest Collection

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HIDDEN NATION

HIDDEN NATION is a collection inspired by Icelandic folklore, focused on one of its most interesting topics, the 'HULDUFÓLK' (Hidden people).

Most Icelanders believe on hidden people living on rocks all along their country. Sometimes they are described in similar physical appearance to humans but much more beautiful and tall. Other times, they are described as elves.

For this collection, the designer has imagined a nation formed by Huldufólk leaving their homes (rocks) and coming to live and take part in Iceland's society, expecting not to be discovered. For that reason, they try to imitate, on her own style, the society they live in.

Being inspired by Iceland's farmer's life, a minimalist tone embodies the collection. Functional with beautiful clean shapes are good adjectives to describe most of the garments. Nude, green, brown, deep blue/violet and grey/black shades, characteristic of Iceland's landscape, are the predominant colours.

As always, the garments are unique, exclusive, timeless pieces exuding high quality and a care design. All of them have been produced either by hand, with small home knitting machines, crochetted or mixing different techniques. All the details are handmade and the different pieces of a garment are joined with crochet.

Once more, mohair takes part on most of the pieces, providing quality, delicacy and softness. Among all the fibers used, you can find 80% Italian mohair yarns, alpaca blends and 100% Spanish artisan wool, but also lurex yarns.