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Emma Shipley blew all the buyers and staff away as soon as she pulled out her amazing pencil drawings. An RCA textiles graduate from this year, she's already collected a few accolades for her beautiful designs that she has transferred to silk scarves. For a while, I had to zoom in and out of her drawings just to check they weren't digitally enhanced prints. Nope - they were ultrafine drawings that shows Shipley to be a draughtswoman of a very traditional sort. Except look closely at her designs and you'll find embedded amongst all the flora and fauna many subversive quirks. Transfer that to a beautiful silk scarf or a jacquard shawl and you have something pretty much ripe and ready to go into Liberty's famous scarf room. It was however a shame that she has already signed up to go exclusive with another store this season. However, me thinks Shipley will make it into Liberty eventually and hopefully accompanied by her wonderful original drawings...
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