ROLLASON BOWRING DESIGN

Glen Rollason & Scott Bowring are RBD. They are 50 plus years combined of excellence in establishing collections, design education and the making of fashion. Having a depth of practice and unparalleled knowledge in their field, they are engaged to navigate numerous design houses into a streamlined path that elevates the brand and consumer appeal.

Pattern making is the architecture of fashion, it creates a road map to navigate best practice and RBD designs opportunities to push beyond the idea of clothing by embedding essentially a DNA of the brand into its cutting, enhancing identity and authenticity.

RBD’s design focus impacts in three dominant ways:

• Our knowledge is embedded in innovative systems of making that create design solutions for our clients
• Our continuous research and development of our own knowledge and information systems creates positive economic, social and environmental strategies
• Advocacy on the benefits of design-thinking through education.

In summary, RBD reconfigures our clients’ technical design systems to ensure they continue to follow successful pathways in creating, making and end-user product satisfaction.

We’ve also established a Patternmaking School, engaging a creative community that impacts on the creation of works for commercial and artistic endeavours.

Our practice encourages behavioural change in our clients. The idea is evolutionary and RBD is engaging in procedures that benefit the realisation of fashion ideas through cutting and making, sharing knowledge into a broader design community.

We use these challenges purposefully to re-evaluate systems that are antiquated in the current climate, which demands a more sustainable approach economically, environmentally and socially.
The typical process of designing and making fashion is no longer viable to ensure the future productivity for an industry requiring engagement in both big and small ideas, needing to untangle systems existing in design and making.

The design community demands more transparency, accountability and social awareness from its brands. Fashion has been challenged to reflect on its own protocols and promote design with a social conscience.

RBD’s response is to manage more ethical supply chains and vigorously challenge its own pathways. RBD has focussed on innovating systems that reduce over-supply, design fatigue and aims to future proof its clients.

RBD is creating new opportunities through extending pattern software possibilities, re-evaluating production techniques that upscale clients’ making, cutting and supply strategies. These amplify positive practices and unburden redundant methodologies that design firms assume are standard practice.