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MOLLY ANNABELL TAYLOR
Designer exploring the intersection of structure, vulnerability, and form.
ABOUT ME
Molly Taylor — Fashion Designer
I am a New Zealand–based fashion designer investigating how garments can hold memory, how the act of making can both reveal and conceal, and how material choices become vessels for feeling.
My practice merges architectural precision with emotional depth. Each garment is developed through an iterative process of deconstruction and refinement, exposing seams, inverting structure, and tracing the quiet tension between control and release.
In 2025, I received the Lauren Hemens Award for Commercial Potential, recognising my ability to translate conceptual research into refined, wearable design.
Fashion, for me, is a dialogue between body and material — a study of tension, presence, and the quiet power of what remains unfinished.
Design Practice
Material Exploration
Studies in wool, silk, lace, and metal — investigating weight, tension, and collapse.
Silhouette & Form
Architectural restraint meeting softness; garments shaped by pressure, breath, and movement.
Construction Research
Inverted seams, exposed closures, structural distortion, emotional pattern-making.
Narrative Development
Research-driven concepts exploring identity, vulnerability, and the body in tension.
2025
COLLECTIONS
A selection of work exploring structure, vulnerability, and material tension, garments shaped through process, emotion, and architectural constraint.
