The winner of the 2020 International Digital Fashion Portfolio Award will be given to the graduate who presents a well-executed, contemporary and professional digital fashion portfolio that demonstrates an individual and creative identity, whilst communicating a thinking process from the concept ideas, through their development to the final presentation and layout. Meet the nominees below!
Alice Piscedda, Accademia Costume & Moda
“Briseadh” is a menswear and womenswear collection inspired by the film “Sing Street” and the relationship between adolescence and the hostile reality of Ireland in the 1980’s. The same atmosphere of the movie is evident in Rob Bremner’s photos. He’s an English photographer who recently published a book, The Dash Between, in which he collected the portraits of young adolescents and children belonging to the 80s Liverpool working class. From these pictures derive the combination of clothes, the oversized fit and the childish aspect which is evident in every outfit. These elements are mixed with two dimensional shapes, inspired by the funny collages of the English artist, Peter Clark.
Clara Pranata, BINUS Northumbria School of Design
The inspiration behind my final project first came two years ago. It was from a Japanese movie titled Little Forest, which told a self-discovery story of a woman who returned to her old village to seek warmth that was missing from her life in the city. The movie was filled with quintessential village life, from provincial serenity, mouthwatering farm-to-table food, and friendly banters between farmers. “Healing” was the perfect word to describe Little Forest, which led me to think about the stark contrast between urban and rural lives. I brought up this topic when talking with my supervisor and she welcomed the idea.
After some research, I found out that my topic was actually in sync with an emerging lifestyle movement caused by an increasing number of young professionals moving to rural areas to escape the sleepless urban way of life. The constant pressure of having to be “on” all the time, crowded cities, and the tall buildings with no sunlight has caused people to feel burnt out and yearn for a simpler lifestyle away from the concrete jungle. From then on, I based my collection on these statistics; reading research journals and articles, making correlations, finding visual representations, and putting puzzle pieces together until the concept solidified itself in my mind.
Evan Sparrow, College for Creative Studies
Currently studying Fashion Accessory Design at the College For Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. Evan is inspired by the remnants of Detroit’s fabled roots, and in influenced by the underground subcultures that he grew up infatuated with. He plans to further progress the brand's stories in a way that highlights their heritage. His training has given him experience in all stages of product development - including research, design, prototyping, styling, and branding. An authentic point of view comes through in his designs, while highlighting his ability to ex outside of his roots without losing that authentic thread.
Hikari Morigami, Osaka Institute of Fashion
“We think too much, we feel too little.” The chaotic situation still continues. It is an idea that we can understand each other through our emotions, not through theory.
Hugo Castejon-Blanchard, ESMOD Paris
My collection deals with numbers, paperwork , archives and other fields related to administration. It is my own personal experience since I studied management for two years before entering the world of fashion and I wanted to use this experience for this collection.
The target of this collection is intellectual , workaholic customers with a sense of self-mockery and a special sense of aesthetic. The result is a work of quality in spite of bad taste elements just like Botter’s collections at the moment. It’s a mixture of tradition and modernism with a man who lives in harmony with his male and female parts. Thanks to the quality of the materials, a meticulous finish and a sense of aesthetic, this collection could be sold in a luxury/ Fashion creator market. “Les stagiaires” (the internes) is the result of a cooperation between two fields : the youth and the world of administration.
Natasha Ahl, AMD Akademie Mode & Design
Fashion is a presentation of continuous change and its only constant pattern is permanent change. When looking into psychological phenomenons and the function of our memory as inspiration for my fashion collection, I focused my attention on what we will leave behind in the context of textile technology and fashion. It is not only about establishing shapes and form-finding by interpreting the characteristics of our memories (e.g. re-shaping, transformation, dis- solution, overlays), but also to ensure versatile and sustainable handling of the potential remains and the ecological footprint humans leave behind.
Sze Tung Chor, Donghua University
Three-dimensional subjects make our world full of beauty. I want to create my work about three-dimensional. Based on this, I started to research. I hoped to find something of interest to me. The one that caught my eye was a group of sculptures inspired by human face expressions. They are out of reality, deformed and abstract. However, because of the human face as a carrier, it is full of intimacy and gives a strong visual impact. I started thinking about wearing a costume with a creative face pattern. The surface of the earth becomes uneven because of mountains and basins. The rocks become vivid and majestic because of their texture. And human beings are unique because everyone has identical faces.
I found a picture of a paper cutout that looks like it's three-dimensionally rendered contour topography on a book page. It makes the record more than just a record. The record can also be aesthetically pleasing too. In order to record the terrain fluctuations, the scientists simplified the complex three-dimensional relationship into contour topographic maps and created a series of works about mountains. If there is a group of mountains that has grown into looks like us, what will its topographic map look like? With this question in mind, I started the design of this work.
Tamara Toby, IED Barcelona
The world of prostitution has always intrigued me. The women, the lifestyle, the dark side of it, the Brothels, how they live in a rough, direct and brutal world. How it is expressed in the Bible and how it continues to exist today, anywhere in the world in all cultures. During the 1990s in Israel, there was a big immigration wave from the former Soviet Union and the trafficking in women increased, and so did the sex industry in Israel. I chose to be an observer in this world, in a painful world full of mystery, control, power, passion, violence and romance. During the work process, I felt that I wanted to focus on the women, to put them at the centre and try to understand the story behind them. I was trying to figure out who they were.
Did they choose it or were they chosen by it?! Where do they work? What is their routine? What kind of women are they? Strong?! Weak?! Are they similar to me or am I to them? Perhaps we share the same fears?! For that, I wanted to understand the physical space and where it started so I went back in time and collected pictures of brothels from different periods and from different places. I wanted to implement a new perspective that contains all types of women and cultures. I used visual elements that appeared in all the pictures such as ceilings, lamps, floors, linens, sheets, bed covers and rugs and translated them into fabric manipulations. In order to create the volume and the silhouette, I used the brothels as inspiration in combination with elements from nature and the feminine body structure. I collected old linens and bedspreads and painted them and used them as new raw materials.
Xiangjun Wu, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
The inspiration for this graduation project came from a film that greatly touched my childhood “Artificial Evolution.” This movie is about a couple of biologists using their own genes to fuse the genes of many other ethnic creatures in their own laboratory to cultivate a new life in the artificial womb. Finally, because this new life is a tragic story of the controlled hero’s mutation leading to the destruction of the heroine of the movie. This movie is based on the Creole thought mentioned above, and uses the tragic story of the abuse of biotechnology to violate the laws of nature to warn the world and let people think about the future of biotechnology that is constantly improved in science and technology. The double edged sword will let us follow the path of humanity. Therefore, the thinking of exploiting the ethics behind biotechnology have become a source of inspiration for this project.
Yang Hanlin, Sichuan Fine Art Institute
In the information age, with the development of science and technology, the cyberpunk style is gradually sought after by people. The light sense of neon lights in the dark brings people hope and imagination of the future technological life. Therefore, I adopted the typical cool colours of cyberpunk, such as blue and purple, and tried to depict the illusory and ethereal visual effects through some expression techniques of fault art, so as to express the life scenes after the development of science and technology to the extreme. I removed the common neon signs from the street, deformed, twisted and misplaced them, and rearranged the clothes to blur the boundary between the real and the virtual.