designed May 1983, comprising: panels of ’Star Stripe’ in red and white colourways on polyester velvet/lycra, 81.5 by 86cm, 151 by 107cm; two first silk screen test strikes ’Techno Mesh’ (big) in red and white colourways, 142 by 125cm, 262 by 75cm; ’Techno’ (small) on cotton polyestra lycra in white and yellow colourways, 136 by 139cm,138 by 93cm; a pair of ’Star Stripe’ stockings; single ’Techno’ glove; together with a large quantity of press cuttings relating to the AW 1984 collection; and a Riverside Studios flyer, August ’84 for the world premiere of Michael Clark & Company performance wearing BodyMap costumes (qty)The Hilde Smith ArchiveHilde Smith recalls:
’I was becoming curious about technology. David Holah got the idea. He suggested the image of TV interference on screen, encountered when a TV aerial needed a re-tune. I ran with that. The options available to me in those pre-home computer years were my hand-manipulated photocopies using overlays of acetate which had been drawn on using Sharpie pens and collages. That led to Andy Warhol being extremely amused, as he renamed me ’Hilde Xerox’, in TriBeCa, NYC. The name stuck. The nautical star returned in the ’Star Stripe’ print, other designs included ’Techno Big’, ’Techno Small’. The ’Techno’ print was inspired by our love of the Chanel suit tweed - I designed a Techno Zerox version of tweed. Again, we used black pigment on colour-dyed cloth. We decided to produce 3 one colour prints rather than one three colour print. Prints proofed and produced in Bermondsey railway arches by David Jamison.