{"id":198,"date":"2015-01-12T16:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insider.utelier.com\/?post_type=features&p=198"},"modified":"2019-01-25T07:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T07:57:22","slug":"natasha-hulse-print-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashioninsiders.co\/features\/designer-interviews\/natasha-hulse-print-textiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Hulse – The Beauty of Print Textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Natasha Hulse is the owner of Natasha LG Hulse Design<\/a> and a graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design<\/a>. She specialises in print design, and her womenswear collections feature bold colours and flowing, yet well-structured garments.<\/p>\n As one of six children growing up in the New Forest, Natasha\u2019s creativity was encouraged from a young age, and she designed ball gowns at secondary school for her and her friends.<\/p>\n She launched her first womenswear collection in 2014; her designs are sold in boutiques in London and New York, and she can count Diane von Furstenberg<\/a> and Donna Karan New York<\/a> as previous clients.<\/p>\n Natasha is enjoying her international success and is working hard to expand upon it, adopt new styles and further incorporate learned skills, such as footwear design, and ensure that her commitment to ethical fashion is present in her work.<\/p>\n In 2015, over tea in the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a>, Natasha talked further about her next collection: \u201cI communicate a story through my clothes, it is emotion and mood based and my main focus and drive are the prints.”<\/p>\n \u201cFor my next collection I will look at the garment structure and then design the textile, it\u2019s the concept of a more fashion driven collection rather than a textile driven collection.\u201d<\/p>\n She also spoke to us about what drives her brand and her experiences of being a freelance print designer.<\/p>\n I completed a foundation course in Textile Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins<\/a>, and then attended the Chelsea College of Art and Design<\/a> where I studied Textile Design (Bachelor of Arts). Within the textiles degree, fashion was a huge influence, and that is where my interest in growing my own brand came from.<\/p>\nHow did you start out in the fashion industry?<\/h3>\n