WORDS BY THE AUTHOR /
SUNNY SIDE UP / My graduate collection, Sunny Side Up, is a translation of my childhood memories. The inspiration came from a variety of things, from books I read as a kid to crazy cartoons such as my favourite Dexter’s Laboratory.
The starting point of this collection was the original print, which I made with the sublimation printing technique. It’s supposed to bring to mind children’s scribbles. In order to achieve three-dimensional, bubble wrap-like structure, I transformed fabric through the use of traditional Japanese shibori techniques.
Soft, scaled forms of clothes are supposed to wrap the figure and create a safe “cocoon”. Through accessories like the exaggerated colourful gloves, headbands with big bows, mattress shape-like backpack and hand-dyed colourful rain boots, I wanted to transfer a little bit of unreal, imaginary world into clothes and create magical, dreamy, fluffy, fairytale-like atmosphere. I wanted the collection to be positive, colourful with playful accoutrements and a little bit of humour running throughout, a reminder that it’s never too late to fulfill childhood dreams.
STARDUST / In my Stardust collection, I combined inspirations from different science fiction movies and animated series like Rick and Morty or Stranger Things and blended them in a colourful, unique way with the wild, cartoonish harajuku streets fashion style and vintage halloween photos.
I used different fabrics, prints and colours to make it look like an alien landed on earth and wanted to have fun with fashion and get crazy. Oversized green faux-fur coat with crochet daisies, star eyepatches, alien spaceship print, cow fake-fur print mixed with light semi-transparent hot pink and yellow dots fabrics, lots of ruffles, puffed sleeves, oversized Peter-Pan collars, little colourful faux-fur totes – it all sounds like an almost impossible blend but a human alien could pull it off.
Little quirky, playful, mindless vibes make the STARDUST collection pop on the runway and vibrate fun.
The print I designed for my collection is entirely sustainable as it was digitally printed on cotton fabrics, (all produced in a Polish weaving mill and finished in accordance with the Oeko-tex Standard 100), with the use of aquatic pigmented inks made in Japan and fixed using high temperature – without using any harmful chemicals.
SUNNY SIDE UP
Fashion Designer / Mindless Katarzyna Dworecka
Creative Director/ Photographer Agnieszka Potoczna
Male Model / Kacper Przybylak @Magnes Models
Female Model / Sara Tarnicka
Makeup Artist / Agata Rzepa
STARDUST
Fashion Designer / Mindless Katarzyna Dworecka
Photography / Alicja Wróblewska
Model / Alicja Kulak @as_management
Makeup Artist / Justyna Niziołek
