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Kate Moross In Topshop

Gavin 24/01/08, 12:27

White ‘Diamond Stellar Object’ sweater, £30

In our January 2008 issue, we named 21 year-old graphic designer and illustrator Kate Moross as one of our latest batch of Creative Futures. This week sees the unstoppable Moross launch her signature range of clothing for Topshop: six jersey pieces adorned with bright, psychedelic graphics hand drawn by Moross using Lettraset markers. “Topshop have given me the creative freedom and scope to produce something exciting, for a brand new audience,” she says. “Graphic design is a science as much as it is an art and I aim to explore science and theory through the medium of illustration, which can breathe new life into these subjects and help to communicate them in an exciting way.”

Pink ‘Solar’ dress, £30

Dark grey ‘Supa Nova Birdie’ oversized T, £25

Tomorrow, Friday 25 January, Moross will be in one of the windows of Topshop’s Oxford Circus flagship store in the heart of London, creating what will amount to Topshop’s first live art installation. The event will be filmed live by topshop.com and broadcast via a podcast. The end result, judging by Moross’ back catalogue of work, will be an eye-popping window display of hand drawn, colourful graphics.

Kate Moross for Topshop will be available in selected Topshop stores and online. Look out for other Moross collaborations this year – she’s currently working on projects with New Era and Nike. We’ll keep you updated on those projects over the coming months…

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(10 comments)

It’s one of the astonishing work of Kate Moross.

Posted by darpan sunwar on 26/01/08, 5:14 pm

she’s so rad! i love all her work

Posted by Will Bryant on 28/01/08, 8:15 am

From a critic’s point of view-I think she’s a great illustrator, but I don’t think she’s anything ground-breaking. I can’t understand why everyone’s making a big meal about her when there so many ‘nu-rave’, gig-type illustrators around, some of whom are better. Lots of people have been playing with isometrics, retro, felt-tip, computer and crazy illustrations for ages.

She just happens to have come at the right time when Nu Rave, cute colourful things (see amount of plush toys, cartoony illustrations and quirky, colourful, adorable things on television) and gigs are in fashion all over again among teenagers. The fact that she’s so famous at such a young stage in her career is very much attributed to her Camberwell School status and therefore, connections and opportunities. Although I admire her hard work and self-promotion with the gig posters all over London.

Mmm that’s my opinion of Kate Moross’s work. I hope she’ll come up with more original things now she’s got lots of connections.

Posted by Tsubasa-Chan on 28/01/08, 1:28 pm

I agree with most of Tsubasa-Chans comments. However, i disagree that “her career is attributed to her camberwell school status”. I too went to Camberwell college and believe me they do not give the “connections and opportunities” you may imagine. In fact, they were generally very unhelpful and unsupportive.

Kate Moross is a great example of someone who works hard and relentlessly at something she enjoys, i really admire that.

Posted by hannah on 04/02/08, 6:51 pm

The Empresses new clothes.

Posted by Dear John on 07/02/08, 3:40 am

dont hate on kate,

you all sound bitter, jealous and most importantly OLD

she is the future, her designs are innovative, intricate and meticulous … she’s beyond unstoppable she’s a force of nature, what have tb ‘nu rave’ illustrators accomplished other than a few copycat flyers?

before you wade in to critise just think what you were doing at 21?

Posted by zzzzzzzzzzz on 09/02/08, 6:59 am

You guys should listen to Tsubasa-Chan, besides ed-banger were the purveyors of this design trend. A couple of years ago it was all mock 70’s and butterflies, now we’re onto the 80’s are we? and someone has been blessed with the gift of reproducing 80’s graphics? what happens when we get to reproducing the next decades? ‘oh dear we were too busy mocking the previous decades so we have nothing to base our style on’. Designers should be more concerned with doing something innovative irrespective of current trends, or is design simply becoming a by-product of music trends?

I don’t think the point is whether she is good or not. She is talented and good at what she does but why they hell cant we innovate anymore? why are we stuck in a process of replicating design from 20 years ago. Too much nostalgia and not enough innovation!!

Posted by wally don on 13/02/08, 6:40 pm

I completely agree with wally don, designers are just regurgitating trends from previous seasons; some decades (70s, 80s) are even making double comebacks!Tthere is a clear lack of innovation and I’m afraid there is little left to imagine that would stir up fashion. Trends have become utterly predictable and repetitive.

PS: On another note, I saw Kate Moross at Topshop today, there was a workshop with her.

Posted by ana on 16/02/08, 12:25 am

All Kate is doing is creating designs that will appeal to people of her generation. Yes, maybe she’s regurgitating styles from some 20/30 years ago, but there’s no point in her designing, say, a ‘metal’ poster for a ‘nu-rave’ gig, because it simply wouldn’t work. If you were going to see Klaxons, which I presume most of you critics haven’t, you would expect to see something similar to Kate’s work just because it’s a convention of that specific music genre. What is ‘trendy’ nowadays is no fault of Kate’s, she’s simply grown up in this era and designed things based around what’s happebed at the time and what’s influenced her. If you look at the world from the point of view of a teenager, people who listen to Klaxons and this poorly dubbed ‘nu-rave’ are the minority and not the majority. They may appear to be the majority if you’re living in London, where people are more open-minded etc, but if you venture further afield then you’d find that there are only a handful in each town. ‘Nu-rave’ is actually fairly uncool and is mainly driven by mindless 14 year olds who can’t think for themselves, and therefore listen to anything NME tells them to listen to.

Another point, particularly aimed at ‘wally’, it’s only nostalgic to you because you’ve been there and seen it before, us teenagers haven’t. And, lets be honest, you’re not exactly going to be the target audience for Topshop or NME.

Posted by joel on 20/02/08, 10:40 am

I Really Want To Purchase “White ‘Diamond Stellar Object’ sweater, £30″ Please Get Back To Me If This Is Possibel.
x

Posted by Amy on 30/03/08, 12:06 pm