Meet Gina Isela Ayala As She Enters The Global Design Graduate Show* By ARTSTHREAD In Collaboration With Gucci
Image By Courtesy o Gina Isela Ayala
Me llamo Gina !
I am a textile designer out of Bay Area California. I was born in the bay but was raised between Nayarit and Michoacan Mexico.
I love to visually explore my culture and the stories around me, I would say my community is where I derive most of my inspiration from.
Gina Isela Ayala was born in Santa Rosa California, and spent her childhood living between her mothers hometown Ruiz Nayarit, Mexico and her own hometown Santa Rosa, Ca.
Growing up simultaneously in two completely different parts of the world, one the suburbs, and the other a small town on a virgin Mexican coast she began to intertwine the colors, textures, and styles that she picked up from each place along the years.
As a designer she now reflects her upbringing into concepts and collections where one can take a dive into her core memories through color, texture and design.
Her New Collection : Lucid Dreams
This collection is a collaboration between fashion designer Amber Kuia and I.
It is called Lucid Dreams and is a collection that dives into the world of our dreams.
The collection has a wide variety of textiles that allows for the viewer to embark on a colorful journey through each garment, the collection is conceptually the gap between dream and reality.
The concept of the collection is Amber and I’s dreams.
The collection is unique due to the fact that some of the prints that I made include photographs of Amber and I.
Just as the viewer journeys on through my world of dreams through our fabrics
The prints are meant to represent what you would find inside my psyche.
We used materials such as vinyl and faux fur, which counteracted the business of the patterned garments very well.
The Global Design Graduate Show
Global Design Graduate Show* in collaboration with GUCCI is open to all undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate art and design disciplines for those that have graduated between September 2022 - August 2023 (Southern hemisphere graduating after October 2022).
The Global Design Graduate Show 2023 is your chance to share your creative work alongside your peers from around the world and get it judged by industry leaders.
It is your chance to curate your creative personality by mixing research with 2D/3D development documenting all the different creative and technical development stages up to the final outcome.
It would be good to know your personal creative journey, whether by photo or film.
We also encourage you to produce a short self-curated Instagram stories style film to introduce your work to the world in your own words and visuals.
We will be launching exciting graduate support led activities, webinars, masterclasses and releasing practical information on how to experiment, curate and upload your creative journey onto the platform, allowing you to express the diversity and raw creative process.
