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Born and raised in Zeeland, the stories about the flood disaster of 1953 were brought up from scratch. As a child I spent many sunny days on the beach, playing at the tide line and with the sand. These are important memories for me of Zeeland, of the event in 1953 and of the Zeeland heritage, the regional dress. What if the water were to rise now? How are we going to survive a flood? And what will happen to Zeeland's heritage? Memories will remain, but the tangible will disappear. And do we actually know what to do when the water comes?
For my graduation project Als ons water stijgt I designed three conceptual survival kits that highlight three different basic human responses that can occur in the event of a flood.

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PHY_GITAL highlights our constant moving from our physical, phygital, and digital being, more so now with digital communication rising dramatically during Covid. In this project alison_murray creatively explores our phygital relationship in these turbulent times, producing a fully digital fashion collection, interactive showrooms and virtual exhibitions; highlighting collaboration and digital responsibility. The collection only uses fabrics grounded in research into which digital fabric is more responsible and ‘sustainable’: by carrying out experimentation into which CLO3D fabric has the lowest render times and files sizes. Resulting in founding the new digital fashion care label.

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La festa della donna, in tutta la bellezza is a story by Boudine Ottevanger inspired by the Italian way of living. The story is about an imaginary woman where her precious memories are translated into her wardrobe. Each look captures a very special moment. This collection, full of knits and silky prints, is an ode to tactility and its beauty

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A Mesocosmic Being presents a story on finding peace in the Alpine nature. It’s an escape from her hectic and noisy city life full of pressure to perform. The serenity of the Alps makes her feel so aware; every colour, shape and detail gets to be fully experienced.
Replicating the Alpine landscape in material design by using traditional and modern craft gives her the opportunity to preserve natures beautiful elements. In this way she took a piece of nature and let it develop elsewhere, like a mesocosm. The wearer will be spiritually transformed into a mesocosmic being.
Out of her material collection she chose 3 samples which she developed into outfits. These outfits are a mixture of mountaineering wear, material experiment and couture.

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GENERAVETION is a digitally designed, fully recycled raincoat collection made only from materials that can be found at a festival campsite. AcidRain is a brand inspired by the use of artificial happiness at festivals and enriched with Augmented Reality prints to enhance the festival experience.

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MANMAID is an 18 minute shortfilm presenting a future scenario of what things might look like once AI has determined to be superior to their creator; humans. In this shortfilm the viewer will be guided by a narration of an AI through 4 different habitats in a human zoo; a research lab, an art gallery, a prison and a place of worship. After the tour through these 4 habitats you'll end up in the giftshop accompanied by a narration of the final speach. The main focus of the film is on the presentation of human life, behavior and weaknesses, and how different environments and circomstances may affect them.

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In Solitude She Dwells is a story about today’s melancholia which results in to a longing for nostalgia. It is about a girl which lives in her abandoned family home, left behind with only antique curtains and the family portraits on the walls. She looks outside the window each day and sees the seasons change. A longing to the spring she feels each winter, but by covering herself with the curtains she steps outside and serenity fills her by seeing beauty in the bleak setting. In this story Josephine Malcorps use metaphors for today’s society such as the fast changing world around us. The finest materials that she collected and kept for years finally got their purpose in this collection. The materials became highly technical tailored pieces with craftmanship, handwork and a lot of emotional value put in to every made piece.

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From the moment we come into this world our pre-determined path guides our way through life. Cultural input and social historical bagage from families turns children into reflections of their ancestors. Only caught up by time itself and technological advancement we gain the idea of self exploration pushed forward by the false belief we are individuals. In this collection I’m reflecting on social cultural individualism and the pressure of your cultural bagage that affects your identity as a child.

As a kid I was raised in a strong religious family. My collection UNDER HIS EYE reflects the transition I made by breaking with this way of life and unblooming my inner child.This collection represents the six silhouettes of alter ego’s of my childhood.

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Following Russian traditions, rituals and beliefs, The dowry of Katja R. is a collection of the outfits for 6 stages of life. Taking graduation as a ritual of initiation, I consider the process of working on in as a mental and practical preparation for the future. It is an ode to manual labour, handcraft, and mindfullness, resulting in a bond between a product and a creator.

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Passé's goal is to create an experience for the customer to never forget. A memory that you will remember while wearing the products. The feeling of being on a holiday, and coming home with a souvenir that brings back all the nice memories. Ready to take a break?

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We Are Under Construction is a visual representation of the times we found ourselves in right now. After the crisis hit every single person in the world, we came to conclude that not only our fashion system, but our whole social system needs to change. But in order to create something new, we need to say goodbye to the old. We need to break and burn down everything we know, only than we can start rebuilding again. Five boys, spread across the Dutch landscape, conducting a silent protest to demand change in the fashion industry and work on a better future.

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MEREL LI-ANN believes that we desire freedom for open expression, unity and truthfulness.
The brand blends elements of nostalgic allure with surprising conceptual translations into an eclectic togetherness of clothing expressions.
The philosophy and otherworldly experiences of MEREL LI-ANN aim to start a conversation that opens the mind for a more conscious handling towards products and valuable way of living.

During groundbreaking events and turbulent times we question the experience of reality and desire a state of bliss. MEREL LI-ANN invites its audience into an imaginary garden where the individual loses its sense of oneself and becomes one with the otherworldly laws of ‘Cloud9’.

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Based on the evolution theory ''the aquatic ape hypothesis'' the collection Devolution of the 22nd Century shows a devolution of human kind. We have to go back in order to go forward. The collection lays with decayed, deforming and reshaping of everyday clothing items as well as the technical wetsuits. My underwater world is being displayed by the use of AR

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Metamorphosis- an honest conversation about mental health is opening up a dialog about mental health to support and empower without the need to purchase physical garments. Fashion is used as transmitter in an artistic way.

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In response to the high expectations within society, the collection IT’S OKAY TO BE NOT OKAY focuses on the importance of ‘self-care’. By using old garments from the eighties and nineties as inspiration, which have been translated in an ironic ‘meme-like’ way into a hyperbolic collection.
The collection starts the conversation and aims to break the taboo surrounding (student) burnouts through the garments. To achieve this, the perspective of the problem is changed by showing it in a different light. The usage of exaggerated stereotypes, gives lightness around this subject.
By transforming old soccer items into contemporary exaggerated streetwear items, this collection refers back to old-school hiphop, where athleisurewear often was used in a bold and daring way.

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It Disappeared into Complete Silenced. Inspired by the freedom of working with people from different artistic disciplines, Oilily links high level techniques of all sorts to create all visual stories she feels need to be told. The storytelling she uses is inspired by a never-to-be-mentioned childhood, by remembering the past and dreaming of a future. Contradictions such as holding and releasing, falling and growing, living life and surviving are portrayed using refined techniques that honour traditional craft and couture. Her collections combine a signature sense of femininity with historical references to create a modern, romantic aesthetic.

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TRÈS PERA, where east and west meet and merge. This collection originated from a personal point of view, a bi-cultural background. Born and raised in the Netherlands, with a Turkish cultural background. Inspired by living in Istanbul and the Pera district and getting fascinated by the east/west element of the city. Taking design elements from Ottoman historical garments and adding them to western tailoring to create new shapes in vintage blazers which clashes to a new, sustainable streetwear collection. The aim to be the bridge between diverse cultures and bridging gaps while breaking stereotypes.

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I am discovering the possibilities of natural latex. With the material I can make seamless clothing. This way I can work without leftover material. Also, natural latex is 100% biodegradable. Since the emergence of the corona crisis, latex has been on the rise. Not only it was much seen during the Paris fashion week 2020, but also latex gloves have taken a place in our daily lives. For years people have tried in various ways to protect themselves against disease, danger and other forms of disaster. Designs, fabrics, jewelry and entire uniforms have been created to shield body and mind from influences invisible to the naked eye. Protective and functional clothing is on the rise at the moment. Latex works as a protective shield, and by combining protection and function together it is the perfect collection for this moment and the future. My collection works as a fashionable protective shield against the pollution we bring into the world.

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Currently we are living in the Holocene Epoch, the now forming rock layer which started more than 11,500 years ago as the last Ice Age came to an end. Because human activity is leaving an omnipresent signature on Earth, debate continues about whether a new Epoch needs to be declared, the Anthropocene. Thus far the layers have been natural without human impact like the layers of the Jurassic- or Cretaceous period. When looking at the Anthropocene and human’s activity, one can’t help but wonder; what kind of layer are we leaving behind?
Five places that have been profoundly reshaped by human mediation are investigated: Powerplant, Landfill, Ocean, Farmland, City and the research is translated into a conceptual visualization of the layers. The conceptual translations of those layers are used as the inspiration for the outfits that together make up the collection ANTHROPOCENE