ABOUT
Michelle Lowe-Holder has been making sustainable upcycled accessories for over a decade.
Originally from Canada she worked in the fashion and theatre industry in New York thru and had her own RTW fashion label from 2000- 2010 in London. In 2009 she was mentored by the newly opened Center for Sustainable Fashion at LCF and in AW 2010 started creating sustainable accessory collections. Experimenting with recycled materials, hand craft and technology, collections are showcased in “Fashion Portraits” celebrating diverse beauty and are exhibited in galleries and museums internationally.
Recent exhibitions include the “Fashioned by Nature” at V&A Museum (2018 - 2019) in London which toured worldwide including the “Natural History Museum of Copenhagen” (2019) and “Design Society” Museum in Shenzhen, China (2020-2021.)
MLH work has been published in several books and continues to photographed by fashion press including Vogue Italia, Vogue UK, Vogue India . Vogue Japan , Financial Times, Dazed and i-D magazine.
Michelle is also a part time Senior Lecturer for close to 2 decades lecturing in Sustainability, Design Concepts and Materials in fashion and jewelry design at Istituto Marangoni at Foundation to MA level. She is a frequent guest lecturer at various universities across London and has been involved with many international and local projects and workshops.
Holding a BA Honours in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute New York, MA Knit Design Central St.Martins and a Higher Education PGCert Teaching Degree with a HEA Fellowship from Manchester Metropolitan University.
In June 2022 she completed a Masters in BioDesign at Central St.Martins.
WORK PUBLISHED
MLH work is featured in the following published books:
“MARKETING FASHION” RePrint by Harriet Posner 2024
“ARTISTAR JEWLES ” by Fausto Lupetti 2019
"FASHIONED BY NATURE" Victoria & Albert Museum 2018
“CORK in ART, FURNITURE , FASHION & ARCHITECTURE “ by Guillaume Bounore / Chloe Genevaux 2017
“MARKETING FASHION” by Harriet Posner 2015
“RE-FASHIONED” by Sass Brown 2013
”THE NEW JEWELLERS” by Olivier Dupont 2013
“ACCESSORY DESIGN” by John Lau 2013
“OPERA VOL II CONTEMPORARY NUDES“ by Matthias Straub 2012
“SUSTAINABLE HANDBOOK” by Sandy Black 2012
“AMELIA’S COMPENDIUM OF FASHION ILLUSTRATION” by Amelia Gregory 2011
