ALICE PALMER

Alice Palmer is a London based knitwear designer who pushes the boundaries with design and production. She aims to change the way knitwear is perceived, creating high fashion, covetable garments mainly inspired by art and architecture.

Alice is especially interested in pattern, form and shape and unconventional knitting techniques are combined with traditional methods to form garments with a bold and modern look.

Following completing a BA in Knitted Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art, her passion for making garments took her to London to study a Masters at the Royal College of Art (2005-07), intent on starting her own knitwear label after graduating, in 2008.

At the Royal College of Art, Palmer specialised in Knitted Textiles, concentrating on developing unconventional ways of constructing knit for fashion. The outcome is a strong, unique aesthetic, coupled with production methods that are friendly to the environment, requiring no fabric waste.

In September 2008, while showing her spring/summer 2009 collection in New York with NY Profile, Palmer was presented with the Best Womenswear Designer award by sponsors ASOS.COM. This led to a diffusion collection for the site that was launched in March 2009.
In 2010, Alice Palmer was selected by John Galliano to have an on schedule catwalk show with Fashion Fringe at Covent Garden. Entitled ‘Fossil Warriors’.
She has since held catwalk shows with Vauxhall Fashion Scout in London and plans to show her SS13 collection in Cologne, being selected by a judging panel for COLOGNE CATWALK 2012, choreographed by Waldek Szymkowiak.