Where do influences and contaminations come from for your collections? And what is the imaginary related to the aestethic that influences you the most?
When I first decided to launch my label, the main concept was to take the attention away from the outside world and concentrate on my own inner world. I wanted to create my own personal aesthetic rather than buying into someone else’s one. I shut myself in my room for a few weeks with a pile of fabrics, a sewing machine and a mannequin and I didn’t go out until made ‘a collection’.
I picked a series of numbers that represented certain ideas and I made my own personal code applying it directly to the construction of the designs through geometry. I was coming from a period in which I was meditating every day while studying cabbala and numerology and I wanted to use this knowledge to create fashion designs.
So the first two collections focused mainly on pure forms and volumes with an esoteric meaning. The esoteric element and the big volumes are probably the core aesthetic of my designs. In my 3rd collection (aw15) I introduced digital prints collaborating with CGI artist Clifford Sage and we developed complex geometric solids in 3D.
CGI works well in translating my visions as I am influenced by technological aesthetics and computer art, along with video games and computer animation. I hope to use CGI again in my next collection.