A PSYCHEDELIC REALITY
Graduation collection, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, spring semester, 2019.
What is 'Reality' and who decides whose reality counts?
During this project, I have been researching the human mind as a way to discover other realities than the one we are born into. Our perception of reality is decided by our sensory input in combination with what we expect to see and is therefore not always the whole truth about the world.
So what happens when we eliminate our expectations about clothing?
I have chosen to play around with different ways of constructions to develop shapes merging into each other, to add another dimension and to disrupt the order of a traditional garment as we know it.
HALLUCIALITY
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, spring semester, 2018.
I got the assignment to create my own movement. I had to research, write a manifest and create a collection representing the uniform of this movement.
The result is about finding another reality through hallucinating, to explore your own mind instead of following the rules of the society we grew up with.
THE JACKET PROJECT
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, fall semester, 2017.
For this project we had to create three jackets with three already existing jackets as a starting point. I used a Tailcoat, bohemian suede jacket with crocheted seams and a judge robe.
REMAIN SANE
Amsterdam Fashion Institute, Honours Programme, 2016.
The second year at Amsterdam Fashion institute i got selected to the Honours Programme.
The collection is about carrying the heavy load of bad memories on the outside for the world to see and how important it is to be vulnerable to remain sane. The aim was to create the feeling of drowning in your clothes and I constructed the garments to look heavy and in the way that they are almost falling of the body.
MOLAGE
Amsterdam Fashion Institute, Spring semester, 2016.
The assignment was to create a creation with inspiration from an already existing craft. I chose to work with the Mola craft invented and still used by the Cuna people in Panama, San Blas. It's a reversed application technique made from many layers of fabric and instead of building up a pattern by adding, shape is created by taking material away. I used this as a design principle and translated it to revealing hidden layers within the human mind and how different a person can be seen from different perspectives.