About Me
I'm Vashanthiya, a Norwegian-Tamil Fashion Textile Design Graduate.
As a recent fashion textile design graduate, I have a range of cross-specialism skills that I combine with print and other surface techniques. I value heritage craftsmanship and incorporate a development of culture combined with modernity, which influences my individual aesthetic.
Inspired by the duality of my roots, my work reflects upon my Eelam-Tamil heritage and Norwegian Nationality through traditions, history and textiles techniques. My print for my Final Major Project re-conceptualises parts of South Asian design aesthetics in a contemporary way. The whole project is modern and subversive yet very clean.
INSPIRATION
FMP: Collision
Through the use of print and fabric manipulation, “Collision” explores my journey to finding my identity as a Norwegian-Tamil living in Britain. The inspiration for this project came from my dissertation about how UK pop culture and fashion are "bricolaged" with other cultures. Collision is all about imperfection, marks, dents, and distortion. This was shown on my fabric as the fabric and prints distorted when corded and pleated.
Distortion and displacement are shown to create beautiful patterns to show how the change in environment (from Norway to the UK) and culture (a mix of Tamil, Norwegian and British) has formed me into who I am and how it has shown through my personal style in my work. This is shown in my macrame sample starts by being perfect and neat and then slowly starts to become uneven and loses shape to the point it is just thread.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Collision aftermath: inspired by seatbelts/airbag
Cultural inspiration
Man-made structure distortion
Pleats but not pleats: Saree inspired tucks
DETAIL
Unisex Garment - black corded trousers with black knitted cut-out print shirt
I believe my unisex garment breaks the gender norms. My final garment with the cut out pushes the boundaries of menswear. The category takes on the subversive sexy trend via the shirt that taps into gender inclusivity. The use of both transparent and heavy fabrics shows how they both perform differently in their own way. As well as capturing the tension between two cultures I also tried unpacking it and considering which aspects can be hybridised in perfect harmony.
"The result of being South-Asian in western society is like two worlds colliding."
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