What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. When the sky outside is merely pink, and the rooftops merely black: that photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world. It is that synthesizing spirit, that “shaping” force, which prolifically sprouts and makes up its own worlds with more inventiveness than God which I desire […]..
– Sylvia Plath, February 25, 1956, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
My inspiration derives essentially from Literature and the Fine Arts, two interests I discovered while studying the Classics in high school. During a three-year Fashion Design course at Polimoda, I learned to translate my passions into a sense of visual poetry for my fashion creations.
From my childhood days, I have been involved in dance and theatre: the experiences with movement and expression have affected my love for costume design. My creative aim is to breathe life into a character through a wholeness of vision. The design must participate in the story, embracing the character while revealing the emotional nature of the person wearing the costume.
