Art and Heritage Online Database

Collection: Gray's School of Art Design Collection
Object Type: designer outfit
Artist/Maker: Lyall, Cameron
Place Made: United Kingdom: Aberdeenshire, Gray's School of Art
Date: 2021
Media/Materials: Halley Stevensons R140 FCF Hybrid/Aero Organic Waxed Cotton, Halley Stevensons R200 FCF Hybrid/Aero Organic Waxed Cotton, MABEL SRL Apple Leather & assorted repurposed garments.
Dimensions: Belt: 5 cm; Leather Portfolio: 32 cm x 48 cm; Long coat: 125 cm x 58 cm; Repurposed 3/4 zip tactical top: 73 cm x 47 cm; Upcycled vest: 49 cm x 41 cm
Awards: RGU Fashion Design Purchase Award
Classification: Fashion and Textiles

Description:

Long coat - knee length black overcoat made of cottom and leather. Labelled C.N. LYALL

Upcycled vest - made of black leather and cotton. Zip and buckle fasteners on the front. Incorporated compass on lower right front facing side. Lablled with C.N. LYALL.

Halley Stevensons R140 FCF Hybrid/Aero Organic Waxed Cotton, Halley Stevensons R200 FCF Hybrid/Aero Organic Waxed Cotton, MABEL SRL Apple Leather & assorted repurposed garments

Repurposed 3/4 zip tactical top - made mostly of black cotton, pockets on the upper arm of both sleeve, labelled C.N. LYALL.

Belt - black leather strip tied to silver metal buckle.

Cameron Lyall is an interdisciplinary fashion designer exploring the middle ground between menswear and womenswear, producing his works under the desing identity C.N. LYALL. The Greek term οὐ-τόπος (NO-PLACE) defines a physical/metaphsyical space which is by nature undefinable. In NO-PLACE, C.N. LYALL asks the importance of experience on an individuals - particulary his own.
During a year of isolation and limbo, C.N. LYALL lost himself. Dazed and confused, with no sense of creative direction or drive, he sought out ways to escape this clouded headspace and reconnect with his practice, escaping to a desolate region of the Scottish coast as a facilitator for this process. It was here in this coastal region that the project was born, out of a period of grief and escapism. The NO-PLACE became both a physical and mental space where the designer disconnected, existed and developed.
C.N. LYALL utilises sound, video, sustainable digital design processes and a community-focused practice to materialise a metamorphic achievement in self discovery - resulting in an open-ended unisex collection created for existence and stability in the vast horizon of the NO-PLACE.

Object Number: ABDRG2022.8