INUIKII x Niamh Emily Foster launch limited-edition sassy footwear and hand-knits

Swiss sustainable footwear brand INUIKII have teamed up with London-based knitwear designer Niamh Emily Foster to create a limited-edition collection of hand-knit sweaters and bootie-styled sneakers. The "one-of-a-kind creations" were conceptualised through experimenting with yarn, mohair and leather.    

The INUIKII and Niamh Emily Foster collaboration has been two years in the making,
and the results are born out of a shared love for the unexpected.

After graduating from London College of Fashion, Niamh turned a lockdown hobby to a full-time passion, hand-crafting wearable art created from re-used yarns to produce a range of sassy garments  with raw handcrafted sensibility.

INUIKII was founded in Zurich by Cinzia Maag and her sons Danilo and Alessio in 2013, initially as a brand for the colder months, when both style and function is key.  INUIKII has since gone on to make state-of-the-art curated footwear for all seasons, combining durability and style, while having sustainability and practicality in mind. 

The INUIKII and Niamh Emily Foster collaboration has been two years in the making, and the results are born out of a shared love for the unexpected.  With this year marking INUIKII's 10th anniversary, they are pleased to be introducing their first ever UK collaboration of this kind.  

Founder Maag said, “I discovered Niamh’s art on  @mimimoocher and immediately fell in love with the raw handcraft and the sassiness of Niamh’s designs. We always had this idea in mind to support young artists, their energetic spirit and unexpected way of thinking. To start this kind of project era and this new kind of HERE I AM — which is one of the INUIKII pillars — with Niamh, made perfect sense. 

"Our brands are aligned, since we support womanhood, standing out, being bold and believing in what each of us is capable of. On the INUIKII side, we dived into the world of knitting, which was very interesting for us and is something that we want to take up in the future. 

We are now excited to see how many heads our collab pieces will turn!” said Cinzia Maag, INUIKII Founder & Creative Director. 

The collection is available at INUIKII.com.

Photos courtesy of INUIKII x Niamh Emily Foster

London designer uses computer programme to capture colours and energy of London

Once in a while, something catches your eye and you just have to stop and investigate.  That was the case at the Scoop contemporary fashion trade fair last week where after seeing many attractive collections aisle by aisle by different brands, a range of scarfs in a wonderful expansive range of colours caught my attention.

Scarf called SOHO featuring the intensity of nightlife,

with bright neon tempered by plush green and blue blocks of colour.

For once, Scoop was held not at the Saatchi Gallery (due to a major show on the Golden Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun) but at the Old Billingsgate Market near the City of London by the River Thames.  This location represents a slice of London’s history and thus fitting to find participating at Scoop a London-based designer whose scarf designs are an embodiment of London itself.

The designs are taken from London architecture and landmarks, capturing the colours and energy of the capital.

Scarf named St Pancras, capturing the bold brick colours of the Victorian red brick landmark against a foggy

winter sky.

Originally from Taiwan, London-based designer Yen-Ting Cho designs his own digital software to create his unique and dynamic abstract patterns of luxury scarfs in merino wool, silk and bamboo fibres, as well as pocket squares.

London Blue, combining classic rich blues with palatial gold.

Cho has rather impressive credentials.  While he has a PhD in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art in London,
he also has a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Design from Harvard University, he was awarded Film Study Center Harvard Fellowships and his animation practice has received awards internationally too. He has worked at INVIVIA (Cambridge, MA), and designed interactions for Microsoft Surface, GSD and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Since setting up brand, his scarfs are already selling well across the US, as well as in Europe (France, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Greece, Monaco) as well as in Asia (including Taiwan, China and Japan) and in the UK, in Bath and Scotland.  Although now he would like to find stockists in London.