Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Textiles for Fashion / Womenswear / Accessories
Location: London, United Kingdom
First Name: Zofia
Last Name: Fijalkowska
Specialisms: Textiles for Fashion / Womenswear / Accessories
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: Fashion Design MA
Zofia’s work investigates the intimate relationship between human and material, weaving parallels between her spiritual practice and creative process. In fashion, this manifests as a somatic conversation between flesh and cloth: a tactile dialog that mirrors the bond between body and spirit. Within this exchange, material becomes more than medium; it becomes ritual, a sacred invocation.
In a world of the unreal, the real becomes a sacred currency.
The dreamlike playfulness in this body of work is born from a satirical devotion: a corpus rooted in intuitive practice where witchcraft in its duality is both spell, spectacle, and a deep, handcrafted listening. Forms emerge as automated sigils bridge semiotics with personal myth. There is a nostalgia for the analogue at play here: a yearning for a world where symbols are ingrained in perpetuity instead of flashing and flickering against glass screens, and visions are prophetic, not phantasms of the technological age.
This body of work investigates the intimate relationship between human and material, weaving parallels between spiritual practice and creative process. In fashion, this manifests as a somatic conversation between flesh and cloth: a tactile dialog that mirrors the bond between body and spirit. Within this exchange, material becomes more than medium; it becomes ritual, a sacred invocation. In a world of the unreal, the real becomes a sacred currency. The dreamlike playfulness in this body of work is born from a satirical devotion: a corpus rooted in intuitive practice where witchcraft in its duality is both spell, spectacle, and a deep, handcrafted listening. Forms emerge as automated sigils bridge semiotics with personal myth. There is a nostalgia for the analogue at play here: a yearning for a world where symbols are ingrained in perpetuity instead of flashing and flickering against glass screens, and visions are prophetic, not phantasms of the technological age.