@pregesaite
“Look 1 from my BA collection 'Duplicity'.
Model: @godi4shure
Photography: @_sheacameron_
Pattern-cut and sewn by me
DUPLICITY reflects designer Patricija Regesaite’s inspiration from the surrealist stop-motion films of Jan Svankmajer. The Czech director and Lithuanian-born Patricija share a bond based on the trauma of Soviet oppression. Occupied lands, repressed with restrictions generated a malaise of monotony. To bypass censorship, Jan Svankmajer reverted to Aesopian language by lacing superficial innocent stories with hidden meaning and infusing them with animated everyday objects and grotesque visual aesthetics.
Svankmajer’s movie Alice features a white rabbit and tracks Alice‘s metamorphosis through her challenging journey. Patricija Regesaite’s pieces invoke this surreal aesthetic, seeming to transform into characters, living a life of their own. Vivid, playful colour is set against a background of a faded palette.
Multiple techniques are used to create collage-like silhouettes. Playing card soldiers inspire wearable pieces and the well-crafted puppets featured in the film, are referenced through draping and pattern cutting, lending their parts for spinning bags and strapped hats.”
Class of 2022 Excellence. #WESTMINSTERFASHION