FASHION GRADUATES
Anna-Marie Gruber
An emerging knitwear designer, based in Sydney. Having studied at the University of Technology, Sydney, she completed the Bachelor of Fashion and Textiles in 2013.While in her final year, Anna-Marie worked with Calcoup, a Sydney based knitwear company, under a scholarship to engineer a series of knits for her graduate collection. Cinematic qualities and geometry have a strong presence in her exploration of knit. As a designer, Anna-Marie is interested in redefining how knits are conceieved and percieved by working new technologies of knitwear and technological yarn.
COLLECTION
DISCONNECT
AUTUMN / WINTER 2015
Evoking the very essence of film noir, DISCONNECT expresses the cinematic world of Alfred Hitchcock, driven by the master of suspense’s iconic ice-blonde leading ladies. Visually, film noir is highly expressive, containing fluidity and sensuality. But with a lack in narrative coherence and comprehensive solution of crime, such films focus on dynamic characters and visual style. Said to be Hitchcock’s most personal film, Vertigo (1956), explores an abstract realm where his voyeuristic obsession with image of the woman is exhibited. Interject this with Pyscho (1960), the film that revolutionised the genre of horror, and you have a collection that highlights desires and secret against the anxiety and madness of a Hitchcock thriller.
