WARRIORS IN THE DARK
A joint project with Madame Peripeti.
This series was featured in the fourth issue of Nico Magazine.
TRANSFORMERS - DIPLOMA
My thesis work is/was based on four similar black coats. The main objective was to challenge the conception of women’s coats. How could one take the same coat and make it look four different ways, so that it would change in characteristics as well? I was able to obtain this by pushing the boundaries of certain accents, which lead to four different looks. The areas which I emphasised and varied where the neck, shoulders, bust and hips. By utilising strong accentuations to these areas, I was able to achieve my goal.In addition, I found that by removing these variable accentuations the results were even more outstanding.
Besides the visual statement of the garments, I of course was focused on function as well. The accentuations were placed on the various parts of the body, which need more protection. This is what lead me to utilise the concept of armour, as I felt the functions of coats and armour shared the anology of protection.
While designing I drew inspiration from the anchient body armour of the samurai and the look of our modern day robots, The Transformers. I compounded to two looks so that the main characteristics of armour would be featured on the coats, and keep their robust effect at the same time.
The goal was to create a constructive frame. While designing and creating the garnments, I felt it was important that the original concept should be identifiable, the functionality of the samurai and transformers body armour. Thus, these four detachable and variable parts result in the fifth siluette, which is the base of the entire concept.
Utilised textiles: black wool, black wrinkled and polished leather-effect textile.
RAINCOATS
CIRCUS
These costumes where made for a competition, in which I was the second runner up.
My Objective was to create costumes which would represent and mirror the colorful and magical world of The Circus. I chose three characters; the red suited Ring Master and The Rubber Girl.
These costumes are still worn to this day at the National Circus in Budapest.
Utilised Textiles: metallic shine elastic stretch, twisted wiring, velvet, taft, silk.