Fashion Design

I went to Antwerp yesterday for an interview, and gawd, it's undeniably true. I love fashion. Let me correct that, I love fashion design. It is inspiring, rejuvenating and all-encompassing. A friend of mine asked, do we still need another generic designer ie. one who follows fashion seasons and basically produces clothes. It's hard to answer because like everything else, routine is always the easy path to take. I think the question I need to ask is: do I want to make clothes or do I want to make something more - ?

For example, Exercices de Style does projects based mainly on the idea of (walking) cities. Garments that are interactive, tactile, and explore our urban lifestyles. It all makes sense because fashion represents not just a piece of cloth, but is part of history, society (representing social norms, ideals, functions). We don't realize this because the fashion system, in line with consumerism, has created a fast, superficial, and hyped up world that ignore the actuality, the materiality, the contextual elements of clothes.

I really want to start my own thing (if only I could graduate now!) Naive perhaps, but I miss the actual process of designing. I feel like I've lost that adventurous spirit in AMFI. Somewhere along the way, I got caught up in all that visual bullshit and forgot about how much I love designing and creating. Somewhere along the way, I also lost sight of all the things I learnt before AMFI and when I think about it now, I realize there is so so so much more that I can give.