Aalto ARTS Student Elisa Defossez among the 20 finalists at the NextGen Awards Première Vision
Aalto ARTS Student Elisa Defossez from the Master’s Programme in Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design has been shortlisted among the 20 finalists at the NextGen Awards Première Vision. The international competition received 532 student portfolios, submitted from 80 internationals schools from 24 countries. The competition offers an unprecedented opportunity for all final year Undergraduate or Postgraduate textile or fashion students to enjoy international visibility in the entire textile sector. The Grand Jury composed of the Première Vision creative team will select the winners’ and the names will be released by Première Vision in September.
NextGen Awards Première Vision Disciplines accepted for the NextGen Awards Première Vision Competition: Prints – Knit – Weaving – Embellishment /Mix Media for either Fashion and/or Interiors.
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Elisa Defossez entered the competition with her Master’s Thesis Project Nukumori – Surfaces of coziness.
“Nukumori is a Japanese word that designates a feeling of coziness. Considered as a holistic experience, coziness is therefore lived through bodily senses, but also memories and feelings. Warmth, kindness, and the presence of a loved one have commonly associated terms in the collective imagination. Nukumori is a collection of surfaces. At the frontier of surface and volume, this mixed media collection is composed of textile woven projects and surface sketch experiments with various materials. This collection aims for a new interpretation of common disciplines, technics, and materials. Textile discipline is therefore seen in a broad scope. Texture and color subtleties are at the core of the collection, translating emotions and comfortable feeling in tactfully and materially ways.”
The collection’s colour palette is inspired by a forest walk on an ending summer day. The sunset’s orange light gives to the forest a particular melancholic atmosphere.
NUKUMORI is a collection of surfaces. The mixed media collection is composed of woven textiles and surface sketch experiments with various materials.
Lämpö (‘warmth’ in Finnish) is an acoustic wall covering from collection NUKUMORI, made of polyurethane foam.
Muutos (‘change’ in Finnish) is a woven upholstery fabric from collection NUKUMORI. Through twill weave structure, this project explores the notion of gradient, fractionating a change of colour from darkest to lightest.
Koke (‘moss’ in Japanese) is a green velvet modular acoustic object from collection NUKUMORI . It can turn out as a sofa, a mattress or a screen, depending on the user’s attribution.
Mänty (‘pine’ in Finnish) is an acoustic wall tile design from collection NUKUMORI. After a process of dyeing, spraying, cutting and embroidering, the expanded polyurethane foam gets a new vibrant aspect.
Photos: Elisa Defossez