Amy Frankie Moroney

My name is Amy Frankie Moroney, I am a multi-disciplinary fashion designer from Ireland, currently based in Dublin. Recently I’ve graduated with First Class Honours in BA Fashion Design from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). Industry experience with notable names such as Helen Cody, has helped hone my design and construction skills. Working in the luxury sales and management sector, proved vital to my knowledge of industry practice on a business level, while attaining to client needs. Within the past year I’ve been invited to collaborate and exhibit my work with Searchlight Pictures, Disney’s “Poor Things”. My graduate collection titled ‘Sunken Remnants”, has been named amongst ‘Irish Fashion Design Graduates to Watch’ as featured in IMAGE. A daughter of a painter, dressmaker, a sister of an animator and filmmaker, the world of visual arts was a constant in my upbringing. Been challenged to question my surroundings and promoted to make, moulded me into finding fashion as my main practice. Stimulated by visual arts expanding sculpture, film, artefact, my fascination between the merger of art and design has always been apparent. My design approach speaks to a surrealist conceptual sensibility, where innovative fabrications, sculptural extensions, and deconstructed tailoring, are key components. My passion lies in distorting and disturbing traditional notions of dress, feeling the need to address the power behind fashioning the body as a vessel, toward highlighting political and social matters. Archival research and rediscovery of the forgotten moments in history underpins my design inspirations, noting themes of culture and identity. Explorative fabrication hints to the varied and unique skillset I use to design, deconstructing perceptions and manipulating the limitations of soft and hard material approach within fashion. Such innovative fabrications share a duality with sustainability, important to my design ethos. Using natural materials, such as hemp rope, bamboo, repurposed hardwood, and natural latex, mimics the raw intensity of the subject matters I depict, without compromising the design aesthetics. My collection "Sunken Remnants" displays the versatility of natural material, restructuring dialogue surrounding sustainability in conceptual fashion.