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Research – Room Partitioning
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Sustainable shoes completed…
The sustainable footwear that started as an experiment into the use of cardboard spools to make shoes is now complete and it will feature in my exhibition “Waste to Glamour” (Part II) Starting on the 8th of December 2011 at my studio in Stratford, London. See above flyer for details.
Something Three Dimensional IV
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Fashion Shoes Research
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Research Methodologies – A reflective statement
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