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Subtraction Cutting

Julian Roberts is a formally educated and well respected fashion designer and film-maker in the UK, who has shown 13 collections at London Fashion Week under five label names: nothing nothing, JULIANAND, Julian and Sophie, Parc deS EXpositions, and Tunnel Technique. He has won the British Fashion Council's 'New Generation Award five times.  He also Creative Directed SuperSuper Magazines two group shows at London Fashion Week in 2007/8.  Julian is currently Fashion Host of BBC Blast online.

Mr. Roberts is the inventor of a garment pattern cutting method called 'Subtraction Cutting', which he demonstrates live in front of large audiences in many different countries, teaching people of all ages and levels of expertise how to construct creative clothing.  The basic premise of Subtraction Cutting is that the patterns cut do not represent the garments outward shape, but rather the negative spaces within the garment that make them hollow. Simply put, shaped holes cut from sheets of cloth through which the body moves; therefore the patterns represent the 'negative', not the 'positive'.

For a dazzling idea of Julian's genius, watch this video or this video!  Find his book, School of Subtraction Cutting, in our store.

Check out the latest event photos:  Kent State Photos. Ryerson Photos. Kwantlen Photos

 

2010 Julian Roberts Tour

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Kent State New York Studio students with their Subtraction Cut masterpieces!

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Ryerson University, Toronto, students in the throes of designing!     The fabulous results!

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Kwantlen University's Show and Reception with Julian ~ a wonderful evening.

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Lesley Pollard, Kwantlen University, Vancouver, with Julian in front of her five half-scale
examples of the Subtraction Cutting variations and the show finale
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A few of the stars -- the black and white is Timo Rissanen's famous Zero-Waste cut and the blue
and black is a collaboration of Kent Fashion School Director J.R. Campbell (the graphic printing)
and Julian (Subtraction Cut).

 

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Ryerson students, listening hard but secretly thinking, 'how is that going to come together?'

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Sylvie Privat in her creation at the St. Helena SubCut Master Class and the Julian's finished design.

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The Kwantlen group, all thrilled with the day and their dresses!


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