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.
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.
