Now She's Cooking with Gas; Fashion; a Textile Student has Transformed the Practical, Traditional Pinny Into a Post-Modern Statement of Dior-Inspired Kitchen Chic. By Cate Devine
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They're wired at the waist and bust to enhance their shape, and a confection of nylon netting underneath adds to their hour-glass outline. They're in delicate shades of pink, cream and lemon. They're decorated with ultra-feminine lace, ribbon and bows. And a greater contrast to Gordon Ramsay's macho pinstriped butcher's versions, currently making their rather menacing presence felt in his BBC series Kitchen Nightmares, would be difficult to find.
Welcome to the post-modern pinny, as designed by Fiona McConnell, a final-year student of printed textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. The 22-year-old from Troon has already caused a sensation by quite deliberately setting out to design a collection of aprons in the first place, never mind one that would enhance the wearer's feminine shape. Even before they go on public show at the Dundee Degree Show on Saturday, Fiona's aprons have already been dubbed "eye candy for the kitchen".See the full content of this document
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Now She's Cooking with Gas; Fashion; a Textile Student has Transformed the Practical, Traditional Pinny Into a Post-Modern Statement of Dior-Inspired Kitchen Chic. By Cate Devine
They're made of good old cotton rather than ubiquitous plastic - and, thankfully, there isn't a fake pair of breasts, a painted-on bikini or a Venus transfer in sight. Neither are they so ruthlessly wrap-around that they squash the outfit underneath them. These are, after all, aprons designed by a ...
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