Katharina Spitz
Fashion Design BA
Berlin University of the Arts
Graduates: 2021
Specialisms: / Formal/Couture / Textile Innovation/Textile Art
My location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Katharina Spitz
First Name: Katharina
Last Name: Spitz
University / College: Berlin University of the Arts
Course / Program: Fashion Design BA
Graduates: 2021
Specialisms: / Formal/Couture / Textile Innovation/Textile Art
My Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
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About
Katharina Spitz is an Amsterdam based Designer and Dressmaker. She has a great passion for hourlong handiwork, contemplating the human body, and the knitting and untangling of the social fabric in matter, form and spirit.In 2013 she made her rite de passage into the world of dressmaking as an apprentice at Pio O'kan Couture in Düsseldorf; after which she emancipated herself as an autonomous fashion designer at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) where she graduated at the Institute for experimental Textile and Fashion Design in October 2021.Her passion for crafting and dressmaking remains a key component within her artistic practice. Fashion is for her first of all a way of being in the world: it interprets and shapes our social networks and ultimately our position in space and time. Through critical intellectual, personal and material engagement with the world around her she seeks ways in which her designs, performances and dressmaking can open up new perspectives and ways of being in a world that is suffering from pollution, misogyny, inequality and deep-seated alienation.
Play Harder is all about play. within my graduation collection i researched play as a critical perspective on contemporary fashion and artistic practice and thus questioned the strained relation between work and play in modern western society. Understanding fashion as a playful situated practice brings it back to the essence of what it could be: Relation with each other and our material surroundings and a strategy to re-appropriate our environments. This offers a strategy against distance in production and against usability and productivity claims, so overtly present in our times. in this playful process a series of ornamental objects was created: very unpractical and useless - but extremely functional for playful interaction. With these objects we can create and re-create our communal expression in play over and over again. The development of this playful process as a critical tool against production and process that is given shape solely according to economic standards resulted in a project that makes one plea very obvious: Dear Craftswo:men and designers, dear fashion-lovers and people who dress: Let's try to play harder!