Fashion Knitwear Design

Amy Twigger Holroyd is based at the School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University. She has extensive and varied experience of professional knitwear design in all areas of the industry, spanning mass-market production, catwalk fashion, designer-maker businesses, swatch design studios, trend forecasting agencies and groundbreaking research. Helen Hill is based at the School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University. She has extensive and varied experience of professional knitwear design in all areas of the industry, spanning mass-market production, catwalk fashion, designer-maker businesses, swatch design studios, trend forecasting agencies and groundbreaking research. Kandy Diamond is a designer, artist and senior lecturer with over 10 years’ experience practising and teaching machine knitting. She teaches across the BA knitwear and textiles programmes at Nottingham Trent University. In 2006, Kandy set up her label 'Knit and Destroy', creating knits that blur the lines between product and art, and challenging cultural preconceptions by offering an alternative representation of knitting.