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The business empire, which Kiely runs with her husband, Dermott Rowan, from a small office and two boutiques in London, has not only earned the designer export awards and industry accolades, but she has even been immortalised on an Irish 82-cent stamp, the type most often used for first-class overseas mail. A Life in Pattern by Orla Kiely Wasilak, Sarah (28 October 2015). "Kate Middleton Wore This Exact Outfit 3 Years Ago, and It Still Looks Just as Good". PopSugar . Retrieved 7 February 2022.

Perhaps it should be no surprise that when Kiely has spoken about her musical preferences in the past, she’s listed contemporary artists such as Feist and Joanna Newsom, as well as classic acts such as Minnie Riperton and Van Morrison. Patterned prints from Orla Kiely Kiely has been described by The Guardian as "the Queen of Prints." [7] Her designs have been used for a variety of objects, including kitchenware, [8] stationery, furniture, [4] wallpaper, [2] and a range of Citroën DS3 cars. [9] LKS2 Pride Rainbow Flags Craft Instructions - These instructions make a lovely art activity that can work as a cross-curricular PSHCE lesson, too. Let your LKS2 pupils have fun making these LGBTQ+ Pride Flags that they're sure to enjoy creating.I knew our silhouette should be clean and simple to give the garment the graphic quality and colour of our print, space to be’ Each design is developed carefully by drawing and refining the essential organic elements that are the foundations of her instinctively satisfying repeating patterns. Nature – rendered more abstract and graphic – is always a core source of pattern ideas. Orla grew up in Ireland in the late 1960’s/ early 1970’s. She received her M.A from the Royal College of Art in 1992 and built a brand that captured the spirit of a world that yearned for certainty in tumultuous times. Her patterns were inspired by the upbeat designs of the 60’s and 70’s and the optimistic days of economic recovery, youthful discovery and innocent certainty.

KS1 Printing PowerPoint - You might want to go through this one before you try the Orla Kiely printing process! It explains two art printing techniques and invites children to think of other objects which they could use to make interesting patterns. My love of fashion was evident from an early age… fashion would become my window to the world, a way to voice my personal language and communicate my ideas’ a b c d e Walshe, Barbara. "Orla Kiely: The Irish Charm". couttswoman.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Kiely credits her grandmother with being the creative influence in her life. Her father was an accountant; her mother studied science before being forced to give up work by her employers after she married. [2] Unlike many textile companies. Orla rarely bought in designs. Instead pieces were created in the London studio where she and her team collaborated in response to ideas and concepts for the season. Only when Orla herself was happy with the pattern did it then move onto the production process.

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KS1 All About Orla Kiely Fact File - This eye-catching Fact File, aimed at KS1 pupils, is a great resource to use while exploring colour and pattern. It summarises the life and work of the award-winning Irish designer Orla Kiely On Monday 17 th September, Orla Kiely ceased trading. Meaning that online business and retail stores in both London and Kildare closed. After seeing this news, I wanted to celebrate the designers fantastic work and patterns from over the years by visiting the Fashion and Textile museum’s exhibition dedicated to her life’s work. She has completed two publications entitled Home and Pattern, both published by Conran Octopus. She released a third publication, A Life in Pattern, in early 2018 to coincide with her exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in May. Kiely first studied print and textile design at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She moved to London where she studied at the Royal College of Art. For Nothdruft, this is all achieved without resorting to pastiche or nostalgia, and places Kiely in a longer trajectory that arcs from the Arts & Crafts Movement through to the mid-­century Modernism of English textile designer Lucienne Day, and the bold, effusive fabric designs of the Finnish company Marimekko. Importantly, at the heart of each of these examples is a holistic approach to design as a way of life, from the small scale of the spoon to the breadth of an entire city as Italian architect Ernesto Rogers once proclaimed, but they are also projects that are inextricably connected with joy.

By walking through the exhibition, you follow the steps that Orla has taken from design, through to promotion and prints. Including giant dresses down to miniature dolls, her collection showcases over 150 patterns across all products from T-shirts to teapots. We have a great range of art resources for the classroom and for home learning. Art for KS1 doesn't always have to be as messy as this Orla Kiely activity might well end up being, but we can't promise all of our selections will leave you and your children free of mess: Her patterns will stand the test of time, and I think they already have. If you look at Stem, it’s been going continually for 18 years or so now.” Kiely’s visually crisp and geometrically disciplined patterns work across clothes, accessories and homeware. This is combined with a particularly broad appeal, zeroing in on that difficult-to-hit sweet spot of delight, commercial success and aesthetic rigour that’s normally the reserve of articulate, perfectly pitched pop music. Created especially for the exhibition, are 9 giant dresses based on previous ready-to-wear collections in iconic prints. Each Is accompanied by a miniature doll created by artist Sarah Strachan and dressed in especially miniaturised iconic prints.

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Orla Kiely, OBE (born 1963) is an Irish fashion designer based in London. She began her career designing hats, and moved on to design work on handbags and a variety of other items including kitchenware and cars. She received a master's degree from the Royal College of Art. She worked with several companies before setting up her own business.