Meet GFF International Talent, Clara Shanie Pranata, from Binus Northumbria School of Design. Clara’s final year collection is inspired by the dichotomy between rural and city living, and the yearning for nature and serenity of rural environments that those living in large cities often experience. Her collection brings rural aesthetics into the city and finds a balance between two opposing worlds. Read more about Clara’s work below.
Meet GFF International Talent, Amineh Ahmad from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Amineh’s collection “Arabesque” is a six piece accessories collection inspired by the role Muslim Arab women play within their society. The collection explores the relationship between religion and culture, and how clothing can be used as a tool to control a person’s behaviour and identity. Learn more about Amineh’s work below.
Meet GFF International Talent, Chor Sze Tung from Donghua University, whose final year collection is inspired by parallels between the natural world and the human face: the contours, gradients, and textures that characterise the two. Read on to discover more about her work and plans for the future.
Meet GFF International Talent: Sarah Mair, from AMD Akademie Mode & Design. Sarah’s final year collection is called The New Nomad, inspired by her travels around Morocco and the Tuareg people, a large nomadic Berber society. Sustainability is at the core of Sarah’s concept and construction, made from up-cycled sails, she has imagined what a nomadic future society would wear to survive. Read on to learn more about her work and plans for the future.
Meet GFF International Talent, Zhang Liuyue, from Donghua University in China. Inspired by the relationship between human nature and animal nature in human beings, her collection has combines origami three-dimensional modeling of animals with suiting to explore this contradiction. Read on to discover more about her work and plants for after graduation.
Meet GFF International Talent, Alice Piscedda, a fashion and costume graduate from Accademia Costume e Moda. Alice was inspired by photographs of children growing up in working-class communities of Northern Ireland and England, looking at themes of class divisions, peace and unity. Her collection is called 'Briseadh' (meaning fracture in Irish Gaelic) and it focuses on the relationship between clothes and the artistic process. Read on to learn more about Alice’s work and her plans for the future.
Meet GFF Talent, Michela Scotto di Clemente, a fashion design graduate from IUAD Accademia Della Moda. Michela’s final collection, CENSORSHIP KILL, came about after a family tragedy that lead her to the idea of giving voice to all the people who repress their emotions, their feelings and their weaknesses. Read on to discover more about Michela and her plans for the future.
Meet GFF International Talent, Jialing Ying from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China. Her final year collection is inspired by the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick, which examines class, technology and power structures. Read on to learn more about Jialing’s collection and her plans for after graduation.
Meet GFF International Talent, Mao Murasato, from Omula Hairdressing And Fashion Professional Training College in Japan. Mao is inspired by pastel colours, as well as shapes and materials not usually found in fashion, such as noodles and flower pots. As you can see in Mao’s images below, collage is a medium she has used to express her aesthetic, saying that collage’s lack of rules gives her the freedom to express her style in a unique way. Read on below to learn more about Mao and her collection.
Meet International GFF Talent, Tamara Toby, a fashion graduate from IED Barcelona. Delving into the world and aesthetics of brothels and prostitution that she observed growing up in Israel, a contrast to the devout religious environment, her collection is inspired by seven words: Passion, Pain, Fear, Feminine, Violence, Control and Romance. Read on to discover more about Tamara’s final year collection and her plans for the future.