Eloise Winand

Eloise Winand is a graduate fashion designer with a distinctive voice rooted in avant-garde aesthetics and cultural storytelling. She specialises in womenswear and is passionate about creating pieces that challenge convention while honouring identity and craftsmanship.

Her final collection, a deeply personal exploration of her Ukrainian heritage, showcased a fusion of tradition and innovation. Through bold print design, intricate textile development, and sculptural silhouettes each garment reflects her commitment to pushing the boundaries of form and texture, revealing her ability to weave narrative into design.

Throughout her practice, Winand has cultivated advanced technical skills, particularly in hand sewing, creative pattern cutting, and the development of structured silhouettes. She excels at manipulating fabric to create unconventional cuts and finds techniques to shape the body in innovative ways. Her pattern work reflects a deep understanding of form, balance, and proportion, while her hand sewing skills ensure a level of finish and detail essential to couture-level craftsmanship.

Currently, Winand is pursuing opportunities in the haute couture space, where she can further refine her craft and contribute to the evolution of fashion as an art form. Her goal is to join a visionary atelier or design house where tradition and innovation intersect, allowing her to collaborate on collections that are both emotionally resonant and meticulously crafted.

Eloise "Holding tight to Nadia" – Graduate collection look 1 Print derived from a flower in Winand's Ukrainian great grandmother's hand stitch embroidery. Collaged and reshaped then sublimation printed onto crepe satin. The dress features a built in structure creating the illusion of the model being hugged by oversized arms of a grandmother figure. The shirt detailing inspired by traditional vyshvanka shirts.

Eloise "Holding tight to Nadia" – Graduate collection look 3 The print is derived from Winand's great-grandmother Nadia’s hand-stitched embroidery. It was multiplied, resized, and layered to create an eclectic floral pattern, used in the vyshyvanka-inspired sleeves that wrap tightly around a more traditionally English silk shirt silhouette. The design symbolises the intertwining of cultures in Winand’s heritage, evoking the feeling of an embrace between her and her great-grandmother.

Eloise "Holding tight to Nadia" – Graduate collection look 2 An embrace from the ruffled lace sleeves of a shirt — its textile inspired by Winard’s memories of the small kitchen in Great-Grandma Nadia’s “granny flat,” where she spent childhood summers learning to sew and bake. The look features Winand’s original embroidery, sublimation-printed onto the lace on the back of the shirt.

Eloise "Holding tight to Nadia" – Graduate collection look 3

Eloise "Holding tight to Nadia" – Graduate collection look 2