Artsthread Sees New Graduates Shine At The Beckmans College Of Design Fashion BA 2022 Exhibition In Stockholm
ARTSTHREAD this week featured the BA Fashion 2022 graduates from Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm presented their final collections in a runway show at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern earlier this month.
Alice Brostedt Svensson‘s collection, Childhood Nostalgia, translates the interior textiles and patterns found in her childhood home into fashion design. Svensson uses hand-weaving methods on a loom to create the pieces and the colour and materials chosen aim to communicate a sense of melancholy.
Saveja Awzel‘s Lost on Silk Road collection sees the designer reconciling their own cultural heritage and identity by creating clothing that marries Chinese and Swedish elements. ‘I examine my mix of cultures with oriental symbols and subtle tailoring which results in a transcultural fashion collection expressing how details in clothing can reveal one’s life story, origins and future,’ writes Awzel. ‘I draw inspiration from shapes and motifs in Uighur and Chinese architecture and textile heritage, colours from my childhood memories, and put them in a contemporary context.’
Samuel Westerberg examines the phenomena of wearing your partner’s clothes in the Boyfriend Dressing collection: ‘The concept is well known in women’s fashion, for example boyfriend jeans, but has not been presented in men’s fashion yet. In my degree project, the phenomenon of boyfriend dressing is moved to a context where the male body is at the centre.’ Taking inspiration from the likes of Helmut Lang, the collection looks at the subtlety and intimacy of gay couples who share their clothes.
Teodor Warpe‘s Utopia Has Left the Building collection is a dystopian take on fashion which draws on the glamour of past fashion design styles but injects a sense of depravity. Maya Sundholm considers what we consider to be ugly in the collection, The Slightest Provocation is Grounds For Engagement. Kevin Nilsson takes inspiration from Iittala’s Alvar Aalto vase, specifically its ‘undulating shapes’ and silhouettes from the 70s and 90s.
In the Mischief Powerdressing collection, Gabriella Danerlöv seeks to explore the ‘female body’s ability to provoke, offend and disturb the field of vision when deviating from the norm’. Danerlöv takes inspiration from imperfect fashion that betrays the wearer, looking specifically at famous wardrobe malfunctions and costumes that inadvertently thwart supervillains.
ABC Ö by Desirée Bjurinder Fritzon features garments made from repurposed deadstock and second-hand garments combined with leather, wool and denim.
Learn more about Beckmans College of Design BA Fashion 2022 from their website.
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