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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Caroline Garland

Interweaving Threads: Why one designer believes fashion’s future depends on human connection

Owen Edward Snaith is a Scottish multidisciplinary designer working across fashion, textile and mixed media. Growing up in a remote fishing village in Scotland he would follow his grandad down to the harbour watching him knit nets, exploring, seeing different materials, rusty metal, brightly coloured crates all wrapped in nature.

“A lot of inspiration comes from that,” he says. “I think from a young age I felt alienated because it was a very masculine dominated space. Through my work I rewrote my childhood, creating story behind the collections.”

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