{"id":43980,"date":"2017-09-22T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T07:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=43980"},"modified":"2017-09-22T07:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T07:51:54","slug":"bringing-colour-home-a-fashion-designers-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/home-garden\/bringing-colour-home-a-fashion-designers-house.html","title":{"rendered":"Bringing colour home: a fashion designer\u2019s house"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bringing colour home: a fashion designer\u2019s house<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Bringing colour home: a fashion designer\u2019s house :- Holly Fulton once flew back from Majorca with Marlene Dietrich in her hand luggage. It was the only way of getting around Ryanair\u2019s stringent baggage restrictions. Marlene \u2013 or, rather, a shelf painted with Marlene\u2019s distinctive face and expressive hands \u2013 was an irresistible market find and Fulton, the Scottish-born, London-based fashion designer, was determined to get the piece home somehow. Her success in carrying Marlene back in one piece has given Fulton confidence that \u201canything is possible\u201d when it comes to stowing holiday loot \u2013 though she now always pays for a check-in case for the inevitable haul of antiques, quilts and terriers made out of matchboxes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marlene hangs on the wall of the sitting room in her top-floor flat above a quiet square in east London. \u201cI am quite a hoarder-slash-curator of stuff,\u201d says Fulton. She relies on her partner James, an illustrator with tidy instincts, to curb some of her magpie instincts. Anything banished from the flat finds a home elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her hunting grounds are \u201canywhere and everywhere\u201d: the antiques arcade in Islington, Indian stores on Brick Lane, Chiswick car-boot sale, the second-hand shops of Edinburgh where Fulton grew up before moving to London to study at the Royal College of Art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fulton\u2019s hoarding is hereditary. She once told her mother that she\u2019d always wanted a DNA model \u2013 the helix sort you find in school science labs. \u201cOh, we\u2019ve got one of those,\u201d her mother replied, and unearthed one from a cupboard. It now stands by the window in Fulton\u2019s sitting room between two smaller sculptures: one of a melting ice-cream cone, the other of a glass of spilt milk and Oreo cookies. Ask where she found, say, a pair of obelisk candles, and the answer is invariably: \u201cMy mum.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPure shots of colour\u201d are Fulton\u2019s passion. \u201cWhat matters is to have things that inject you with a bit of enthusiasm and joie de vivre,\u201d she says. A row of psychedelic, dizzyingly colourful prints by the pop artist Dave Roe hangs in the sitting room. \u201cThat\u2019s like the inside of my head,\u201d says Fulton. The Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi, known for his Tottenham Court Road tube station murals, is another colour hero.<\/span><\/p>\n

This season, Fulton is launching her own homeware and lifestyle product range alongside her clothes designs, and she says these will be very much in the graphic, pop-art, Paolozzi line. She describes her inspiration for the coming season as: \u201cLouche, decadent, Holly Fulton meets Biba meets Memphis.\u201d Her own cushion designs are mixed and matched at home with swirling Pucci prints.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a purist,\u201d she says. Things don\u2019t have to be in mint condition. I like the interplay of different cultures and eras.\u201d A Japanese obi belt and an African batik are draped over a chair; a Scottish quilt covers the bed.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is fond, too, of kitsch. A ceramic army of Homepride models guards one shelf in the kitchen. Scott\u2019s Porage Oats tea towels and a Heinz beans tote bag hang from cupboard doors. Fulton also collects \u201croses and castles\u201d barge-ware \u2013 the wooden spoons and enamel cups you\u2019d find on an Edwardian canal boat \u2013 and Portmeirion chemist jars stamped with their curious contents: Dandelion Cocoa, Egyptian Salve, Otto of Roses Cold Cream.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is drawn to folk art and craft. A collection of \u201csweetheart\u201d pin-cushions lives above the bed, embroidered by wounded First World War soldiers while they convalesced. \u201cI like the idea of these quite macho guys making these super sentimental things with their hands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The narrow hallway houses her collection of painted Clydesdale horses by folk artist William Robbie, active in the 1920s. She talks of her pride in being Scottish and the great graphic tradition of tartans, tweeds and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her home is a glorious Highland fling of inspirations from around the world. \u201cAll my favourite influences,\u201d says Fulton, sitting on a Quaker Oats chair, \u201cjammed into one place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source :-\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/sep\/17\/bringing-colour-home-fashion-designer-holly-fulton<\/span><\/p>\n

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