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Zofia Fijalkowska
Fashion Design MA

Royal College of Art

Specialisms: Textiles for Fashion / Womenswear / Accessories

Location: London, United Kingdom

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Royal College of Art

Zofia Fijalkowska

Zofia Fijalkowska ArtsThread Profile

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

About

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.