WOMENSWEAR

ANIKA VERMA

CONCEPT: Traditional Border

“It’s mainly inspired by physics It’s designed to shock people…my garment is completely different to how it was a couple of weeks ago.”

ISABELLA HOELK

"‪After researching photography, art installation, and scientific studies, I continue experimenting by gathering primary research and then deconstructing the exposures through photoshop and collage. This is a part of my creative journey which is crucial as it represents the transformation from research into my own interpretation of an idea. If I had to describe my white show design in 3 adjectives, it would be, 'feminine, unyielding and arousing."

HAIXI REN

CONCEPT: Thoughts on Art

"I was particularly interested in Cubism-which is analyzing one subject from different perspectives. Therefore, I used parts of archetypes to create cubist perspectives."

SAMANTHA ADELSTEIN

CONCEPT:Traditional Borderlines

"The initiation of acceptance of a culture that I repressed within me. The white show was a way for me to start researching a side of me and my family. A message of purity within cultures and the illusion of fear."

ADITI SAHOO

CONCEPT: Traditional Borderlines

"I considered Pina Bausch, theatrical dance choreographer as my muse."

ZIXIN GAO

“My father was a fashion designer in China and made a Halloween costume when I was really young. He used curtains, so it was really interesting watching him take a household item and create a Sailor Moon (a Japanese TV character) outfit. This was the point where I was inspired to go down the path of fashion design.”everything miraculous."

ADAM POULTER

"I tried to incorporate sustainability into my designs by utilising the fabrics we were provided in the best way I could without adding much other material."

LEONIE

CONCEPT: Lovers

"It’s a sweet story of a lonely life. Someone living alone with fish, Kodokushi ( ‘lonely death’ ) someone living and dying alone and not being discovered for a long time), it has dark elements but it’s from a charming point of view, I looked at bookbinding to represent papery things like notes and crossed out calendars which are found after cleaning the flat of the person."

BRYAN

"I picked ‘traditional borderlines’ as a starting point. I wanted to play around with stereotypes surrounding formality and informality. I saw imagery from 18th century coffee houses and wanted to combine an unusual element to it. I came up with a new 18th century coffee house, similar to coffee shops in amsterdam where cannabis is also available. From here I began to explore the effects of cannabis, one of the main effects always tends to be becoming glued to the sofa and becoming a couch potato."

TOBIAS HOWARD

CONCEPT: Our interpretation of art

"I was inspired by nothingness, spatialism and metamodernism. In terms of my design aesthetic, I was naturally inspired by Craig Green’s use of rigid structure."

MAX BREWER

"My designs usually draw towards an organic aesthetic, I like to use unconventional objects and materials to create colour and texture within my garments."

NIKA PASHALISHVILI

CONCEPT: LOVERS

"My inspiration comes from my country (Georgia) where in olden days we had such a tradition that when a person would get married, family would gift them the most valuable item they owned in the house. In my case my grandma Lily received a glass set of vase and glasses specially engraved for her with lilies. I am excited for The White Show, as for me it is legitimating my presence at csm and it makes me feel really happy that i get to show myself to everybody."

MAÏSSANE ZINAÏ

CONCEPT: Traditional borderlines

"I felt it was a theme that would enable me to work, for the first time, about something from my family, my legacy and identity.. As the first true project of my fashion student life, wanted to design something deeper, and more representative of my story. After thinking about what the word "Tradition" meant in my mixed cultures family (French-Maghreb-Muslim), I decided to work about the key that enabled to link these different cultures in a harmonious way: our Sufi spirituality".

YOUNG EUN JEONG

CONCEPT: Our thoughts on art

"The word diffraction intrigued me enough to start my research. All those lights showing in different forms and directions were interesting enough to focus on. It led me [to the idea] that everything we are seeing at the moment could be illusions.."

ANDU JANG

CONCEPT: Traditional borderlines

"Rei Kawakubo is an inspiration to this particular piece as well as looking at the body."

ZENGANGMO REN

CONCEPT: Traditional Borderlines

"One person has two identities. Princess of the late Qing Dynasty inspired my design."

OLA FABIYI

CONCEPT: Lovers

"I try not to draw inspiration from any designers. I like my designs to come directly from my experience researching my subject matter only."

CIARAN GRIFFITHS

CONCEPT: Traditional borderlines

"Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Rei Kawakubo and of course Vivienne, have inspired my design aesthetic. I think there’s always a tension or contrast in their designs and even in the way that they present them, and contrast is what I always think about when I design. My biggest inspiration is a surreal experience I have every couple of months in which I am woken up in the night by voices whispering in my ear. I can even feel their breath on my neck - it’s super weird. [...] I played around for a while with distorting the image of ordinary plates into “flying saucers”, recording bedsheets as ghosts and I even painted myself green and slid myself over a scanner. However, I did settle on the plain white t-shirt as the most appropriate ordinary object for this project and that became one of the most prominent features of it."

BELINDA NELSON

CONCEPT: Thoughts on Art

“I like to use artists as visual stimulation as part of my process of designing, by copying and abstracting parts to create a simplified version; I love to create organic shapes within my designs and attempt to balance seduction, sexuality in a suggestive way rather than an overly sexualised way."

YEONJU JANG

"I wanted to create a character who is a hoarder of ceramics. So I began looking at different types of ceramics from around the world and objects that are designed for carrying. My designs are meant to show the evolution of a hoarders life, where a person becomes their phenomena."

KRISTIN SON

CONCEPT: Lovers

"My white show design was based on the concept of “lovers.” I decided to take a different approach on the idea of love. My project was derived from my childhood interactions with a family member. Due to the clash in our traits, we constantly compared ourselves to one another which formed a sense of jealousy between us. I perceive jealousy as a form of admiration rather than hatred, which then translates into love. This led me to redirect my research into parasitic twins, the smaller and less completely developed member of a pair of unequal conjoined twins."

GRACE LING

"I was inspired by the surrealist art movement and how people weren’t afraid to tap into dreams and subconscious in a time where everything was over rationalised."

RUBY CAI

CONCEPT: Lovers

"I chose the theme lovers and was fascinated with the superficial aspect of love. To put this into context, I focused on the idea of a femme fatale—-a woman who assumes a powerful stance in society occupied predominantly by men—-her sex and power is a spectacle to be admired. le I referenced a myriad of different types of body modification across different cultures, the circus, and the Tudors."

LARISSA SEHRINGER

"Fashion to me means my livelihood. I breathe, move and create it everyday- it’s a creation of story and fantasy. It’s my salvation and makes me energized, very crazy and happier everyday."