kirstine Fernandez
Fashion Design BDes
Ryerson University
Specialisms: Apparel / Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles
Location: Toronto, Canada
kirstine Fernandez
First Name: kirstine
Last Name: Fernandez
Specialisms: Apparel / Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles
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My Location: Toronto, Canada
University / College: Ryerson University
Course / Program Title: Fashion Design BDes
About
Kirstine Fernandez is currently a 4th-year fashion design student pursuing a Bachelor of Design at Toronto Metropolitan University. Kirstine’s creative practice is centered around experimental textile manipulation within garments. Emphasizing sartorial storytelling, Kirstine’s work pulls from personal anecdotes and experiences as a Filipina second-generation immirgrant, curious about the differing expectations built within diasporic and mainland perspectives on various topics and issues.
In consistenly pushing boundaries by incorporating unconventional materials using textile manipulation techniques, Kirstine holds skills in garment design and construction, pattern drafting, and textile manipulation. Kirstine is also involved with various biomaterial experimentations including bioresin and biosiicone to explore sustainable alternatives to harmful materials frequently used within the fashion industry. Sustainabilty, curiousity, connection, and unorthodoxy are at the forefront of Kirstine’s design values.
Kirstine believes in perpetual learning and growing in all stages of the creating process and career. In emphasizing the voices of herself, her family, and her ancestors from the Philippines, Kirstine creates worlds in which her identity, alongside others, exist outwards of hegemonic worldviews and social constructs.
OffWorld is a 3-piece garment research and design project based on the impacts and reliance humans have on memory and emotions in connection to everyday life. This project pulls visual inspiration from cyberpunk aesthtics and the Bladerunner (1982). As humans, we are in constant yearning of a life we used to live. We grasp at the memories we so desperately try to hold close, but each day those memories falter and fade. As we think back to them, details are lost until all that is left is the foggy haze of times that are no longer attainable and the emotions we felt in those moments. These intangible pieces of our lived history only exist within our frame of mind and in the emotions we experience trying to travel back to those times. Offworld emphasizes the use of tied smocking techniques as a metaphor for the reoccuring act of remembering lost moments in our lives that we want too relive. The repetative act of smocking is a nod to this, the physical, tangible evidence being the shrinking of fabric and marks left on the hands are fingers from tying threads.