Originally from Montréal, Eloïse Ptito-Echeverria is a textile-apparel designer currently based in Amsterdam, NL. Driven by intelligent print and ethical design, she possesses a particular penchant for textiles, embroidery, and colour. After completing her Fine Arts degree in 2011, she lived in Santiago, Chile for a year where she trained in Rococo hand-embroidery and Shibori. She also studied Precolumbian-Andina textiles at l’Universidad Catolica de Diseño.
All of these experiences have collectively impacted her aesthetic vocabulary, resulting in a heavily art-based design ethos that insists upon embedding her work with the empowering qualities of colour, the textile practices of her mixed heritage, and the emotional recycling of personal materials. Paying very little attention to current fads, her ultimate goal is to create soulful heirloom pieces that will be passed down, from daughter to daughter. She is a graduate of the Ryerson Fashion Design Program and was awarded Brettons’ Designer of the Year.
Her work has been featured in Selvedge Magazine, SWITCH Magazine, Textielplus, The Star, The Kit, Not Just a Label, Blanc Magazine, and more.
Past workshop & embroidery clients have included Nike, Levi’s, EDITED, Parostore, and more.
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EDUCATION
BDes Fashion Design, Ryerson University, 2017
Theatre Design, Concordia University, 2013
Pre-Columbian Andina Textiles, UCD, Santiago, Chile, 2012
Fine Arts DEC, Dawson College, 2011
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Textile & Apparel Designer, Instructor, and Curation. 2020- Presently
Designer, Curator, Researcher, Merchandising Coordinator at Byron & Dexter Peart's purpose-led design platform "Goodee", Montreal. 2018-2020
Designer’s Assistant & Freelance Hand-Embroiderer, Bone Set Studio, Toronto, Canada. 2017-2018
Designer's Assistant, Carola Besasso of DAM Boutique, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2016
Designer's Assistant, Laura Siegel, Laura Siegel Collection, Toronto, Canada. 2015
Rococo Embroidery Apprenticeship, Carolina Gana, Atelier Rococó, Santiago, Chile. 2011-2012
Shibori / Fabric-Dyeing Apprenticeship, Textile Artist Inge Dusi, Santiago, Chile. 2011-2012
HONOURS & GRANTS
Arpillera Workshop Leader & Teacher in partnership with Selvedge Magazine (UK), 2021
Invited Guest Speaker & Embroidery Instructor at Williams College, 2021
Invited Guest Speaker & Embroidery Instructor at Amsterdam Fashion Academy, 2020
Featured in Not Just a Label's film at the Condé Nast International Luxury Conference, 2018
Brettons' Designer of the Year Award, 2017
Thesis Collection shown at TWFW (Toronto Women's Fashion Week), 2017
Recipient of AGO & HCHC Art Installation Grant for "Taking Roots: Our Canada" Exhibit, 2017
Finalist in Ryerson’s Mass Exodus Curated Show, 2017
EXHIBITIONS
Garments to Rebuild the World, Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam, NL, 2021 (Wearable Art Group Exhibit curated by Eloïse Ptito)
Then Now Next, Mode Canada & Fashion History Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2017 (Group)
Roots/Raíces, Sur Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2017 (Group)
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