Ideas that can be cut, sewn and worn.
Three projects: from a research-based concept to a pattern on the table and a collection in the language of a fashion house.
I’m Elizaveta, a fashion designer. I work across the whole path of a garment: concept and research, pattern construction, tailoring, and design inside an existing brand’s language.
I’m looking to collaborate with independent brands and creative studios on capsule collections.
Imagine: turning research into a collection.
Build: constructing and sewing to a luxury standard.
Translate: designing within a brand’s DNA.
swan.avi
Imagine
Collection of three looks + animation
How do you put Björk’s meeting of technology, nature and mythology into clothes, so that it reads as one image?
The project explores how technology shapes the visual language of Björk’s work. The swan, a symbol from Icelandic legends, became a signature element of her aesthetics and points back to cultural heritage. Bringing digital technology into the context of nature and mythology is her specific way of self-expression. The result is one image: technological, with deep national roots.
swan.avi project presentation/process
Research into nature, technology and mythology in her work led to a digital swan, sculpted, textured and animated with a 3D artist, and to a collection of three looks built on the same concept (knitted structures, silicone details).
swan.avi sketches
swan.avi lookbook
swan.avi animation
Three looks and an animated swan, one concept.
I can turn cultural research into a coherent collection.
Creditsph: @lolagrhm muse: @sladkozevnyl helper: @alexander_tugo sculpt, textures, animation: @psinkqqcurated by @katya.sycheva
Comme des Garçons jacket: a study replica
Build
Pattern construction and tailoring
To recreate a Comme des Garçons jacket with materials, hardware, construction and technology close to the original, working only from photographs of the finished garment.
The module set four tasks: analyse the model’s construction and technology; identify the brand’s design and production features; study complex modelling of lined garments and the finishing of each unit; make a replica from materials and hardware close to the original.
My approach: read the garment from its photographs and rebuild it, seam by seam.
Patterns drafted by me from photographs. Fabric: cotton 100% and wool 100%, chosen to match the original. Tailored with luxury-level finishing, in line with the original.
A finished jacket that follows the prototype’s construction and finishing.
I can build a producible pattern from limited information and finish it to a premium standard.
Mouton noir
Translate
Comme des Garçons DNA collection
