Item 2017.199 - Liam Hodges Handpainted Nylon and Wool Coat

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2017.199

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Liam Hodges Handpainted Nylon and Wool Coat

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  • 2013 (Creation)

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Liam Hodges
(2013-2023)

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Liam Hodges (b. 1988) first showed as part of the Fashion East installations at London Collections: Men a week after his graduation from the Royal College of Art in June 2013. Liam Hodges was sponsored by the British Fashion Council’s NEWGEN programme for three years, from 2016 to 2018. The company collaborated with numerous other brands including Levi’s, Domino Pizza, Pepsi, Urban Outfitters, Dickies, Ellesse, Fila, Boardies and Björn Borg. In 2023, the company went into voluntary liquidation.
Sources: British Fashion Council; Fashion East

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Westminster Menswear Archive

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This hand-painted coat, crafted from nylon and wool, features a surface pattern achieved through a combination of sublimation printing and hand-applied ink pen colouring. The nylon sleeves have an exaggeratedly curved shape with extended, folded-back ribbed cuffs. The coat includes pocket flaps inspired by the design of the US Air Force L-2B jacket and later versions of the MA-1 jacket, which incorporated similar flaps. The garment is painted with black acrylic paint.
Season: RCA MA - Pre-Collection January 2013
Material: Hand-painted nylon and wool
Keywords: Royal College of Art, MA pre-collection

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Item on loan to "Invisible Men" exhibition , 24 Oct-24 Nov 2019

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      Nylon, wool
      Colour/Print: Green
      Details: Hand painting
      Label: Liam Hodges

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      Invisible Men exhibition label:

      HAND-PAINTED COAT
      Liam Hodges
      2013

      This hand-painted nylon and wool coat formed part of Hodges’ pre-collection, created before his Royal College of Art MA graduate collection. It is a hybrid of a nylon MA1 jacket and a wool military-style coat and has a surface pattern that is a mixture of sublimation printing and hand-colouring using ink pens.

      Nylon, Wool
      Archive no. 2017.199

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      From Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive:

      HAND-PAINTED MA-1 COAT
      Liam Hodges
      2013
      This hand-painted nylon and wool coat is a hybrid of a nylon MA-1 jacket and a heavy wool military-style coat, featuring a surface pattern created by combining sublimation printing and hand-applied ink pen colouring. The coat was part of Liam Hodges’s 2013 pre-collection, which he designed before completing the MA Menswear programme at the Royal College of Art in London. The nylon sleeves have an exaggeratedly curved shape and extended, folded-back ribbed cuffs. In addition, the coat has pocket flaps, which reference the US Air Force L-2B jacket and later versions of the MA-1 jacket that feature these pocket flaps.
      Nylon, Wool
      Archive no. 2017.199

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