Jennifer Brown from Under the Root makes the most sexy and understated lingerie.
What is your background in design?
I began assembling used/vintage textiles into theatrical costumes during the high school years. Clothing came next while using a secondhand, black lacquer Singer and the miscellaneous textiles from garage sales, thrift stores, estate and church sales, and reclaiming used/found materials. After high school, I studied Business, Design, and Dance. I read tons of practical applications and found the greatest source for continuing on, oodles and noodles of practice. While studying Dance at Columbia College Chicago, I realized that costumes played an intricate role for the performances. The availability in movement and projection of each design was tantamount for dancers, performers and individuals alike. Today, each handmade structure reflects the use of cottons and the grace of the human body.
What designers are you currently coveting?
A difficult question and I will try to name a few.
Muir Hughes, Scrap-Danny Mansmith, Laura Good from Hierapparel Although, I have not even touched on architecture, artist, illustrators, painters, videographers, writers, graphic, photographers, milliners, hair and makeup designers, jewelry, accessories, and shoe designers.
What other lingerie designers do you like?
Tres Parisien with the les annees folles... this encaptulates the perfect answer to your question.
Where are you selling your new collection?
There are three brick and mortar stores which carry Under The Root in the United States and Canada.
Three online businesses, an Under The Root website, and a personal newsletter for the clients are ways of viewing and purchasing the pieces. Custom designs, news and information regarding collections are available by contacting via email undertheroot@gmail.com
Who is your ideal customer?
Those whom choose to believe, that each cut is made from the hands and minds of the delightfully eccentric and succinct elves, goblins, sprites and other unorthodox adjuncts of the landscape observer.
If you could dress one person in history who it be and why?
I am dressing them now, and soon we will be history
Currently Reading/ Watching anything?
The books I am attached to right at these moments, are
'A Field Guide to the Little People' by Nancy Arrowsmith, 'The Holographic Universe' by Michael Talbot, 'The Birthday of the World'
by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I am involved with the Under The Root writings located at
http://musingsusingsandloosethings.blogspot.com
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