Eat what you wear with fashion student’s edible clothes

Most fashion students keep their finished design pieces in a wardrobe, but 22-year old Emily Crane has to use a freezer.

Kingston University fashion student created Haute Edible Couture fashion series – new strain of edible “clothing”. The young designer lives by the expression “you are what you eat” and creates intricate designs, all of which are edible. Emily Crane uses gelatin, seaweed and food dyes to form her beautiful garments and accessories.

Crane’s work will be displayed September 17th at London Fashion Week’sVauxhall Fashion Scout in Covent Garden, but even the designer herself can’t be certain of what she’ll be showing.

“I never know exactly what something is going to turn out like in advance because the processes are still very experimental,” she says.

Check out the photos of her garments and watch video of Emily at work here.

Edible Clothing by Emily Crane from Jasmin Chua on Vimeo.

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HISTORY OF HAUTE COUTURE

Since the great age of Louis XIV and his extravagant court, France has been the yardstick for fashion.

Haute Couture is a craft that has endured and evolved for more than one hundred and fifty years.

It is a gentleman named Charles Frédéric Worth who holds the honour of being the originator of Haute Couture. In 1858 he founded the first true house of haute couture at 7, rue de la Paix, in Paris.

He created original items of fashion each distinct and possessing its own personality for individual clients. The essence of haute couture is underpinned by a sense of craft that each season dazzles with its creativity and virtuosity.

The phrase haute couture is itself the French term for high fashion. Couture itself relates to dressmaking, sewing, or needlework while haute means elegant or high.

To own a haute couture model garment is to possess a hand customised fashion design by a couture design house that is of the highest possible level of quality. A hand made model haute couture garment takes into consideration both the wearer's measurements and body stance ensuring an exquisite fit.

The actual term haute couture is protected by law and according to the Syndical Chamber for Haute Couture "only those companies mentioned on the list drawn up each year by a commission domiciled at the Ministry for Industry are entitled to avail themselves thereof". The criteria to which a fashion house must adhere in order to be categorised haute couture were laid down in 1945 and updated in 1992.

These rules are simple, to be designated as haute couture a minimum of fifteen people must be employed at the workshops and must present to the press in Paris each season (spring/summer and autumn/winter) a collection of at least thirty-five runs consisting of models for daytime wear and evening wear.
The golden age of haute couture dates back to the fifties, but today there are only 10 houses of haute couture in France, designing to an elite customer base of around 3,000 people worldwide.

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