Tllskärarakademin is a school with a wide spread of programs, such as patterndesigner, historial/theatre tailoring, mens/womens tailoring and confection/cutting. It’s not firstly a design-school but rather a school for preparing to take on design. Many of its students move on to be designers and well-known names are found among the previous students. So I’m sure we will hear more from a few of the students in the future.
Some might say that part of what we will show from this show isn’t fashion, and that might be true. But we will show it anyway. Might bring inspiration to someone! 🙂
Maybe you have heard of this event already? Otherwise if you’re in Gothenburg saturday May 9th, don’t miss out! The shows start at 13.00 and 16.00 and tickets are sold on site or can be bought in advance at ‘Emma & Malena’ on Vallgatan 4 orat Tillskärarakademin.
FashioFriend.se will attend packing cameras and lenses and images will be up on the site on monday. Check back!
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This feature is of Michelle Urvall Nyrén, another of the designers that participated in this years Fresh Fish. Lets put it short and and let Michelle do the talking.. kinda’.
• Name
• Age: 23
• Hometown: Göteborg (Gothenburg, Sweden) Current location: Dals Långed, Sweeden (the site of her school, HDK Steneby)
• Education: Textile – Clothing – Design at HDK Steneby
• Goal : Fashion as art, wearable fashion and clothing
We asked Michelle some questions and here are her answers.
Q: What is fashion to you?
A: Fashion to me is culture, communication and storytelling.
Q: What inspires and what are your influences?
A: My inspiration differs, but I am always affected by what happens around me. I want to tell stories with my clothes. It is about creating characters and stories; making problems and solving them. I have many influences, Henrik Vibskov, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo for Comme des garçons and Yohji Yamamoto, to name some of them.
Q: When and where does your ideas show up/happen?
A: It does not follow a logical pattern. In cities, among people and buildings, in the forest or at the library. Ideas come from everywhere all the time.
Q: Do you sell your stuff somewhere?
A: Yes, at Tjallamalla in Stockholm.
Q: What is coming in the future? Any new collection?
A: I am currently doing my second year BFA at HDK Steneby, and I am going to do an internship in Paris next term. I have plenty of ideas and sketches for an autumn collection, but I am not sure yet.
Q: Where can we see more of your clothes/designs?
A: Some of them are to view at my schools homepage, It is under construction though.
Q: What is hot right now, and what’s not? 😉
A: I could not tell. Expressions as “hot”, “right” and “cool” are relative, and to me they are not interesting at all. It is about people and their personal expressions. To me, part of the fascination about fashion, is that it looks different on different people. There are no rights and wrongs..
Q: Is fashion necessary? Important? Explain!
A: Yes, it is. Fashion is modern history and popular culture, it is communication. It is an interesting phenomenon, and its importance will not weaken since it is one of our most significant ways of expressing ourselves. To me it is important on a personal level, it is about personal development, self fulfilment and most of all, it is my passion.
You can contact Michelle here:
• E-mail – michelleurvallnyren[a]gmail.com
• Phonenumber – +46(0)737415815
• Website – michelleurvall.blogspot.com
