Christopher Nemeth

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You didn't have any formal fashion design training, so how and why did you first get into making clothes?"I moved from Birmingham to London in 1979 to do painting at Cambewell College of Arts. I graduated in 1982, and for a couple of years after that I was painting at home. The paintings at the time would involve me getting old suits, taking them apart, laying them flat, like a canvas. Because there were all these shaped pieces of fabric, it kind of looked like an animal skin. I would put glue on them and chuck sand on them, and paint on them with house paint, and I would stick images on them from holiday brochures. I had no money, I couldn't afford to buy any clothes - and I couldn't actually find any clothes I liked, anyway - so I began to make them for myself. I had this pair of trousers that I'd picked up in a jumble sale, which I really liked the shape of, but after wearing them endlessly they had completely worn out. So, I took them to bits, laid them flat, and made my own new version of them. That was how I made my first pair of trousers - as a way of getting back those trousers that I loved but had worn out".
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