Sara Roudbari
Fashion Design BA (Hons)
De Montfort University
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Apparel / Textiles - Knit / Genderless
My location: London, United Kingdom
Sara Roudbari
First Name: Sara
Last Name: Roudbari
University / College: De Montfort University
Course / Program: Fashion Design BA (Hons)
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Apparel / Textiles - Knit / Genderless
My Location: London, United Kingdom
About
I am an eclectic and detail-driven fashion designer with an eye for colour, silhouette and texture. I specialise in knitwear but am enthusiastic and experienced with woven fabrics as well. Being a queer artist from Iran, I have always found my heritage and community inspiring and am determined to add whimsical story-telling elements to my work.
The Abnormal-wear is an outerwear collection I designed during my second year BA Fashion Design course. It consists of 4 fantasy-like and exaggerated looks based on the concept of abnormality and monsters. Main inspirations for the collection came from my own experience in dealing with traumas and inability to express and manage my emotions due to being neurodivergent. I am showing this by overwhelming and oversized garments with weird and incorrectly placed/ missing details. My personal interest in monstrous creatures and abject art has also been a great inspiration; therefore, I used my own artworks around this theme alongside secondary image research to inspire me for shapes, details and colour palette. After a great deal of standwork, collaging and sketching, I finalised 4 looks and moved forward with one of them to construct it in 3D. The outcome is the toile of a voluminous and oversized outerwear garment, completely in sustainable material, that consists of two separate pieces; a puffer jacket and a puffer coat. The details consist of handmade buttons, screen-printed fabric and pockets.