Dark cellar, three illuminated boxes sunk in the ground. Human beings dancing on a screen, creatures, sterile, naked, sleeping in the boxes.

We didn't. We had. Why? is the examination by five students of the University of Applied Sciences Trier, finding themselves in a time between study and their expected future, which they face, only having their final creation.

Agnes Boleslawski, Elisa Damm, Jennifer Koch,
Paula Knorr und Raphaela Rose started their Fashion Design Studies in spring 2009 at the University of Applied Sciences Trier, which they now graduate with their BA Collections. Their responsible supervisor is Prof. Dirk Wolfes.

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Agnes Boleslawski

agnes@wedidntwehadwhy.de

B.A. Modedesign (FH)

"the sun is the center of the universe." This work ist about pieces in the center of their very own universes like in the disproved astronomical model. Three different overall patterns that embody their sun in a done and dusted sphere, acting as intermediary between subjective perception and objective exercise. The collection contains 10 different outfits basend on the geometrical form of an hexagon, clear lines, and sharp exceptions. Every piece is re-enacted three times in order to create a perfect ratio to its pattern, resulting in completely differnet impacts. heliocentric is Agnes Boleslawskis graduation work/collection at FH Trier, Germany.

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Elisa Damm

elisa@wedidntwehadwhy.de

B.A. Modedesign (FH)

This collection is an experimental examination of the different and seemingly incompatible characteristics you can find in a cocoon. Protecting but fragile, armoured but almost without weight, transparent. Smooth and perfect, but spun following a chaotic principle. Tightly wrapped in this protective coat, the cocoon is exactly therefore at the mercy of its surrounding world. Transparent down jackets with strict but unusual cuts and technical fabrics meet fragile hand knitted, knotted and woven surfaces and visualize the tension between self protection and vulnerability, between order and chaos. random noise is the graduation collection of Elisa Damm, student at FH Trier, Germany.

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Jennifer Koch

jennifer@wedidntwehadwhy.de

B.A. Modedesign (FH)

Path to decay is the graduation collection of Jennifer Koch. Due to her bi-cultural background (german-korean), she was always interested in other cultures, especially nomadic tribes from central asia. She transferred this aspect to her final graduation collection and created a postapokalytpic world, where people live together in tribes, recycling remains they preserved from their civilized past.

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Paula Knorr

paula@wedidntwehadwhy.de

B.A. Modedesign (FH)

The naked human body shown in an abstract way represents the major point of this work. Details of individual body outlines and different surface qualities offer diverse sources of inspiration. Shapes, colours and textures - taken out of the original context - present new, strange attractions. Despite all deforming abstraction even the dissected nudeness still provides a sensual and erotic character which is typified by this collection.

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Raphaela Rose

raphaela@wedidntwehadwhy.de

B.A. Modedesign (FH)

The twenties: a time of change and inconsistency. Traditional, social structures break open and are replaced by a society that is hard to overview. The pace of life increases. In arts and culture there is no longer one dominating stream, but many different ones co-existing. In Literature the Montagetechnique is introduced: A principle of combining already existing textforms such as letters, protocols and newspaper articles. Montage approaches topics from different perspectives and this creates moments of surprise. The attempt to picture the increasingly complex reality. The collection incorporates the technique of montage and transfers it to fashion. Elements of painting, film, literature and culture of the 1920´s are brought together and function as sources of inspiration for material, colour combination and cut. Bauhaus, Kurt Schwitters, the films of Fritz Lang, self confident women such as Amelia Earheart and Josephine Baker and mens fashion of the twenties were such sources.

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