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| − | In this last year as a fashion student, I am starting think more and more about: what if I am graduated? Since I was little I wanted to be a fashion designer. But what is the definition of being a fashion designer exactly? I looked it up in the dictionary:
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| − | Then we get to the next question, what is fashion?
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| − | Then I realised I was not going to be just a fashion designer, because I do not want to be a designer who only creates and sells clothes. I see it more as fashion designer being a part of my profession. Because as a designer I am curious about everything and I want to experiment everything and that means that I am not only creating clothes.
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| − | In the beginning of the 20th century fashion designers worked in lab coats, almost like there are scientists. Fashion designers would either design clothes or design clothes and make them. In their ateliers they would create the newest collections. It was not easy to become a fashion designer, you would need years of experience, it was not something that everyone could just do.
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| − | These days the time has changed, fashion designers do not walk around in lab coats anymore, they are not seen like scientists. And you can ask yourself do you really need years of experience to be a fashion designer, when all the information you need is in the wide and open on the internet. Can today anyone start calling themselves a fashion designer when they design clothes? This question is why I want to be more than just a fashion designer, these days it is much more interesting to see with what fashion design can be combined to find a new way, in which fashion design gets a new life.
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| − | As Daan Roosegaarde said in Dutch Profiles:
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| − | Do not create more comfort zones for yourself, but enter relationships that are uncomfortable. Then it becomes exiting, then you learn and will get unique things.
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| − | This quote of Daan Roosegaarde really shows how I work. I am intrigued by things that I do not know and I want to try it out. This gets combined with the fact that today you can find everything on the internet. When get inspired by something I do research about it and talk to people who know about it. After this I start my experiment. Because I do not know all the techniques I try to work with I approach it in a different way than someone who is specialised in it. Which brings new results. I think this is also what the world needs. Because these days there is so much that we already know and it sometimes feels that there are no more new things to discover. But there are so much more things to discover in the things we already know.
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| − | Maybe I can call myself a professional amateur just like Kieren Jones does. He also tries out new things he never did before, because he is intrigued about it. He looks at the things we already know and with his design background he uses these data to create something that is really his own. For example the sea chair project, he used the data that there is a lot of plastic in the sea. This he combined with his research about the job of the fisherman these days. And together with his design background he created the sea chair that is a product of all the data he was inspired by. The chair reuses plastic from the sea, it gives traditional fisherman more work and it is a great design product.
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| − | Like Kieren Jones I want to combine data we already have and make it in something new, that does not only presents me as a designer but also gives something to other people and inspires other people to start thinking in a different way. This way I can combine my fashion background with other fascinations.
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| − | Today people can achieve a lot with the newer technologies we have like the 3D printer and lasercutter. Things that where never possible become possible! This is really interesting to use for the concept of combining different data. Combining these newer technologies with problems that are happening in the world and my fashion background could result in amazing projects. It really fascinates me what people already achieved with the newer technologies and it makes me even more exited to start experiment with is myself, which could result in totally different approaches and results.
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| − | So to explore myself as a fashion designer/ amateur, I want to get knowledge of different data and combine these data with different techniques. For me it is really interesting to see how I can combine these different data with the newer technologies we have today, because there is already so much possible but even more possibilities to discover new things with them. And with the combination of the data we already have, the newer technologies we have and my fashion background I really hope to create a new way of seeing fashion design differently than just pretty clothes. Because today the world needs more than just pretty clothes, we need a new way to make what we have interesting and solve the problems that. And lets not forget we should stop getting bored with what we have, because there is still so much to do that we do not know yet!
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