Carla Boré
Fashion Design MA
Institut Français de la Mode IFM
Specialisms: Apparel / Sustainable Fashion/Textiles / Textiles - Print
Location: Paris, France
Carla Boré
First Name: Carla
Last Name: Boré
Specialisms: Apparel / Sustainable Fashion/Textiles / Textiles - Print
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My Location: Paris, France
University / College: Institut Français de la Mode IFM
Course / Program Title: Fashion Design MA
About
Hi! I'm Carla, I'm 27 years old, I'm a young fashion and textile designer and I grew up in Paris. I studied Textile Design in BA at LISAA, and just graduated from IFM Master Fashion Design, speciality Apparel.
I am now working as an intern in Acne Studios womenswear office in Paris.Deeply inspired by Haute Couture, I believe this low and more conscious process of making can help us to reconsider and consume garments in a more gentle and ethical way. My main objective through my work has been to make a tribute to textile, french savoir-faires (know-how) that risk disapearing one day... I want to highlight those craftspeople that are still too much hidden behind the collections. Those techniques both ancestral and/or innovative are now considered as treasuries we can't loose. Using made-to mesure or integrating adjustability in the making, my garments are addressed to every kind of human (kind of age, gender, genderless, body size, trying to include also people with disabilities).My Master collection « Réenchantement », which means returning to a certain form of magic, speaks about a depressed society who has lost faith in spirituality, and in the beauty of the living world. I’m questioning how we come to this point, and how we could bring this light back. We can project the divine on things that surround us, on bodies, on ourselves. By putting the sacred back into our lives.There is somehow a necessity for elevation, rebirth, which include spiritual and corporal transformation.I wanted to storytell my own contemporary mythology, between women that inspire me everyday, and ugly female monsters (chimera) turning them into beautiful heroes. This process helps us requestioned the standards and norms of beauty.By highlighting draping with textile techniques I have developed by my own or by collaborating with people, I wanted to work on this idea of wearing a « new skins » by loosing our old envelop and dressing a new one, more magical, closer to the animal skin.The idea was to treat the skin in many different ways highlighting craftsmanship with different morphologies. Second concept was also to play with the notion of « light », projecting it, shadows, gradients, such as crystals, or like the work of symbolist painters.In the context of an individualised hurried society, my objective is to make us think about the slow making of garments, the uniqueness, while making Couture more accessible, showing a more open, mystifying, enigmatic femininity.
"Réenchantement", which in french means going back to a certain form of magic, speaks about a depressed society who has lost any faith in magic, spirituality, the mystery. How could we bring this Light back to our world? And "re-enchant" ourselves? This is the story of a Re-birth. Inspired from female monsters, turning their monstruous features into our new contemporary women heroes, i worked around this idea "wearing a new skin" closer to the animal's. By developing my own textiles, my aim was to make a tribute to all those know-hows, that one day risk disappearing, putting Couture back under the lights. Deeply inspired by Haute Couture, I believe this low and more conscious process of making can help us to reconsider and consume garments in a more gentle and ethical way.
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