Amelia’s couture fashion collection is influenced by the beauty and chaos of broken pottery, combined with the reviving and enhancing Japanese Kintsugi technique. This is a process whereby ceramics are repaired using a gold lacquer. The design emulates the disarray of pottery being smashed and then reassembled and ‘repaired’ within a three-dimensional format, utilising embroidered fragments to create a garment.

Fragmented took inspirations from the ceramic collections of the V&A and the British Museum. She explored these through observational studies, using painting and drawing to capture the motifs and form of the objects. Amelia’s work is often guided by pattern, using the colours found in traditional ceramics. She has used a wide range of hand embroidery techniques and materials to reflect these. Looking at a variety of ceramic pieces such as tiles, vases and dishes, she has drawn inspiration for the colours typically used in these; blue with white and Jade.