Jonathan Saunders Fashion Designer Profile

Female: One of the UK’s rising young stars of the fashion industry and
renowned for his passion for print and textiles is the understated
designer Jonathan Saunders. The Scottish born designer began by
graduating from the Glasgow school of arts in 1999, receiving his
Bachelor of Arts in printed textile. He then went on to gain his
Master of Arts with distinction in printed textiles from London
Central St. Martin College of Art and Design completing it in
2002.

Jonathan: That is quite I can find down between designing approach to textile
design. Whether it is textiles or product design or interiors or
whatever you do so how fast it can approach in that in the trend is
the focus of the collection.

Female: Since then and despite being fairly new on the fashion scene, his
collections have gained praised from across the industry. But aside
from coordinating his own label, Saunders also consults for some
major fashion labels in Europe.

What makes Saunders a new generation designer, award winner
distinctive is how he works with prints, color and not least the cut
of his outfits. He is a traditionalist, instead of using new
technology, his clothing and every print is created by hand.

Using silk screening techniques he designs prints around pattern
pieces creating an individual effect on each garments, giving it is
own specifically designed print. Instead of having the same image
being used on each piece of clothing throughout his collections, he
is one of the highlights of the London Fashion Week in early 2004
calling his ultimate winter collection, a homage to pop and fine arts
- continually making breakthroughs on a business side of fashion.

Jonathan: To say this at the end of the day, you got to provide and aim a
product to be worn and you got to be delivered on time for the
shops. It got to be a good product so that is the kind of the main
importance behind what you are doing. And you can get clear to
sight out whatever you desire.

Female: He continued to catch the eye with fresh bold colors in his next
collection in 2004. The Bow House influence from architecture,
originating from Germany and Art Decker with the 1920’s and
30’s with main themes.

But dramatic prints have always been his keynote, whether he
prefer the strong reds, oranges and blues or the simple contrast of
black against white. His hand line length varies while the full
length dresses looked eminently wearable. Only a couple of years
out fashion school, the Scottish designer had already created a
significant business with stalkers taking his designs from Harrods
in London to Neiman Marcus in the U.S.

By 2007 for the spring summer season, he was offering military
inspired clothing which kept him on a part to success. Designs
included short sleeve shift dresses paneled with contrasting print of
binding, layered with breast plates. For day wear, cotton, silk and
organza separates were bound with white gorget to frame the body
in the pallet of white corn flower blue and orange.

A year later he was parading body hugging clothes with his
trademark bold color panels. His name pallet was white with off-
shoots of black, beige, various shades of blue and a hint of yellow.
Like many up and coming young trendy designers, Saunders is
now mixing with the rich and famous and designing outfits that
announcing across the world on the bright young music, television
and film stars. Fashion icon and actress Sienna Miller showed off
her look and desire to standout in Saunders futuristic looking dress
with bold bright colors.

And actress Tandy Mutton has also being seen wearing his designs
and supporting the designer backstage. Saunders is now a designer
that it is in demand for his own collection as well as for his
collaborations with other British designers. And at such a young
age, he already has impressive reputation with print being his
guiding light since his student days.

Using a combination of fine tailoring with vivid design, the
understated Jonathan Saunders is one of the bright lights of the
fashion industry.