Molly Owen

Molly Owen is a Textile Designer with a passion for material innovation.

Specialising in knitted textiles, her practice explores the relationship between form and function through carefully considered material and colour choices, in order to maximise comfort and challenge our perceptions. The idea of problem solving by pushing traditional boundaries and changing how we approach knit has always been at the heart of Molly's practice.

With a constant desire to learn, Molly’s curiosity and hands on approach has led to new ideas around sustainability, aesthetics and performance, with the user experience at the forefront.

REUSE // Accustomed

Accustomed is a celebration of the everyday and the ordinary.  The project aims to give life to the discarded taking inspiration from the often overlooked. 

Focusing on domestic waste, Molly looks to provide a new way of thinking about future aesthetics and performance by looking at how the construction of materials could be based on what we have around us. 

Whilst working from home, Molly was restricted to the materials and tools at her disposal.  She began thinking about the untapped waste stream of the everyday and the ordinary; domestic waste such a plastic bags or fruit nets and how they could be utilized and applied to materials in order to keep them in circulation for longer and bring new life to the unloved. 

In this instance, Molly has applied her ideas to a footwear context, however believes that this process could be widely used across a number of applications.