| Department: | Fashion&Design |
| Project title: | Who Silences His Fool Dies Voiceless |
| Website: | www.floorkolen.com |
| Email: | floor_kolen@hotmail.com |
Project:
Coming from the point in history where Dada evolved into Surrealism and where revolt met escape. In the 1920’s Dada represented an anti-scream that mocked all bourgeoisie ideals and art by methods of automatism and ready-mades. Surrealism came from the same dissatisfaction but took the way of handling this a step further. By escaping into a dream world and materialising the fantastic they created a new, more satisfying reality.
I combine Dada and Surrealism in order to deal with the input I get from the outside world. There is the presence of a certain revolt and loudness that I like to mix with a fantastic new reality in my dream world.
Both these characters come together in my inner fool, he is there to embody my problems and laugh at them at the same time. Which can sometimes be rather melancholic. I take myself serious, but not too much. This fool represents the joyful aspect of that part of us that we repress. He is our inexhaustible energy, as long as we agree to laugh at our serious selves, going always beyond ourselves.
This collection presents the fool inside of me.
Result:
A collection consisting of polyester body shapes, pierrot collars and big dotted prints. The colour palette shows mysterious greys combined with deep orange and golden yellow. One might question reality while looking at this collection, the new body shapes and transparent fabrics create an illusion where the true body is hard to identify. Next to that you can just see that I enjoyed creating this collection, that totally resembles my personality.
