KAREN NICOL

A show of work celebrating the joy of embroidery in fashion and style…… including ‘Wearable Art‘

Karen Nicol is a London based mixed media and embroidery textile designer/artist working in fashion, interiors and gallery.

Karen has designed and produced interior textiles for many clients including the King of Qatar, Chanel, the Pope, Estee Lauder and Gwyneth Paltrow. Karen also creates own-label collections of home pieces for many companies internationally.

In Fashion she has created concepts, designs and finished pieces of embroidered clothing for ready-to-wear and couture fashion, working with many fashion design houses including Schiaparelli, Alexander McQueen, Jasper Conran and Giles Deacon.

Since 2010 Nicol’s large embroidered, painted and sculpted art pieces have been exhibited and sold in galleries and art fairs all over the world with solo shows in London, Paris and New York.

For this exhibition Karen has created a range of Unique, embellished vintage French Workwear Jackets and exclusive, one-off recreated bags with humour.