graduate collection 2019/20: modernability
In my final year of university, I created a collection that highlighted the novelty of futuristic aesthetics. As time moves forward, humans have an innate desire and ability to reflect and reminiscence. This desire to project into the past explains our fascination with retro aesthetics. On the other hand, the unwritten future is a world of possibility, wonder and unknown. It’s this combination of ideas that unpinned the rise of the retro-futuristic aesthetic and therefore created Modernability, based in Amsterdam.
An expression of sensuality and enhanced romanticism is curated in this collection. Highlighted elements depict innate feminine features and highlight the female body. The aim in which to prove a sense of empowerment, through vulnerability and intimacy. This theme allowed a certain playfulness that captures the perception of this powerful representation; that vulnerability presents strength. Below shows my process from the original inspiration to the final results. Published in print and online in Feorce Magazine November Vol 6, cover and 10-page spread in Mob Journal Vol 10 #38 Edition and online at Pattern Magazine.
Broken Divinity SS25
In the last weeks of May, I showcased a mini-collection around the collective theme of “Broken Divinity” using only recycled materials. When developing the concept for this collection, I suddenly remembered that I had been given a wedding dress from a family friend that had been sitting in storage for about four years. Having a beautiful, expanding marriage, she no longer wanted to keep it as they moved into a smaller space. I saved it before it was thrown away.
A true artist can understand this feeling of hoarding small bits and pieces, saying to themselves, “I’ll use this one day!” That day for me came this year. I was so grateful to be able to make this collection with a material that holds so much memory — a material that honors three decades of union
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Brought to life with a previously owned wedding dress, this collection was born out of pure concept and creativity. Creating for the sake of creating — without trying to “sell” the items — is rare, so I felt very fortunate to explore this concept. As someone who is currently discovering my own faith and understanding what it means to be truly far away from God, this collective concept, “Broken Divinity,” allowed me to explore the emotions that accompany that journey.
Shame, regret, disgrace — all melded into the woven serenity of a wedding dress: a symbol of union, a promise, a vow.
A vow that perhaps we can never be too far away from our faith, as it is always within us — something that can never be taken away, even when we think it’s broken. It is a promise from our Creator that He will never let go of us, even if we have let go of Him. 🥹💙
New kids turbo f/w17
This project matured from the film “La Haine”, in which the story focuses on three outcasts living in the suburbs of Paris. Analysing the emotions of the characters gave the tone of the collection, whilst the abstract cinematography provided the silhouettes. Before heading into stand work, I looked at oversized, unisex shapes that I was inspired by to start developing the tone of the collection. I sketched small drawings just to give some visual idea for the silhouette which would then be realized by stand work.
I pulled clips that were crucial to the story and held the most emotional value whilst understanding the emphasis of conceptual cinematography. I draped the fabric in ways that would behold these memorable moments in the film. Beginning the design development process with sketches of stand work. The intricate details of each draping technique were experimented on in different parts of the body to analyse each final outcome.
lOOKING INTO RAW AW17
Based on the brief of "Diversity”, I researched global photographer Jimmy Nelson's series of The Siberian Arctic and Northern Africa. The two photo series had such parallel differences that I developed a collection based on such extremes for a harmonious balance.
