GIORGIA BORON

Grey Sheep

Location

london / United Kingdom

University

istituto marangoni london

Graduation year

2013

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I was born within a family of powerful women. Fourteen, all of them with fierceness and independence. Few men but notwithstanding with courage and patience, it is not at ease to face the whole of us, they distinguished themselves with fantasy and extreme wit.
I spent my childhood among fields of Udine, running through rivers and hay, together with my twin sister, coming home just for sunset, called by the clank of the bell that our aunt use to ring to call our attention.
My childhood has been marked with yelling and crying against my mother that enjoyed forcing both me and my sister to dress identically. My desire to evade from the undisputed rules of good taste of appropriate clothing had its very own roots within those tearful moments.
The woman that I probably respected and adored the most has been my grandmother, dearly missed recently, who taught me love for life, the colours and Odyssey’s fairytales.
She raised me telling stories about stray cats and running in the rain. She loved classical music and paper games. A stain on the wall became a painting from her hands, and semolina was the best served dish. She loved teasing people in front of her, with her incredible cleverness. Teacher of art history, she managed to lead me into the artistic world, like nobody else ever could have.
After a naïve childhood as only few can dare, I moved to the big city of Milan for high school. I had to fit in the attitudes and conversations of those kids from Milan that showed such difficulty in accepting my accent and candour.
I found the possibility, the independence and the willingness of transgression in that very high school path.
The change became my vocation, once used to the monotony of the big city, I started dreaming bigger and better, escaping to different cities, London as first and foremost.
My passion for the fashion system had always been linked not much to the final product, being the garment, whereas instead to the idea, the inspiration that lies behind it. I always enjoyed reading beneath the soul of a person through the shape of the garment she had drawn.

Latest Collection

the anger by Giorgia Born

The inspiration for the final year collection alighted this summer, period of my life where I learned a lot, first and foremost about my life, hence about the other's.
I comprehended what it means to be entitled of your own feelings, learning thus to bury them where professionalism is required, and digging them back up when the time comes to face difficulties, using them as strength of your being, always referencing how you feel. I realized every moment needs to be lived without the torment of not being able to understand what or whom surrounds us, and make being your own, without indulging on sensations we can give to others.
My collections had its very beginning with the most difficult feeling to confront and understand, the one feeling that consumes from within and transmutes while being seen from the outside: The Anger.
I thus realized garments that would express the sensation of feeling trapped within ourselves, experimenting shapes reminiscing of war armours, and utilizing pattern making techniques in order to overturn the shape of skirts, preventing models from movement, hence consuming them within exertion and perhaps even showing peeve , a principle of rage for the lacking of movement left to her.
After the first fitting, while still perusing the emotions felt this very summer, I developed the collection that seeped from the feeling of constriction to the pouring out of this feeling. Hence a concept that is based on the overflowing of emotions, the unravelling of a rattling strong feeling that used to be locked within ourselves and could not find any outlet. Therefore I drew softer shapes reminiscing of the etherealness of being.
Once examined these shapes I focused on the exterior, on how the outward of this string of emotions is perceived. In my opinion, the outcome is fascinating.
The study of laser cutting came as a consequence, to drill the skin like emotions punch the soul, and the study of the print like the very confusion that occurs in one's mind.
I will therefore represent these garments with different layers, some of which will be punched-cut in order to show the prints underneath (the feelings), and with skirts with soft shapes in order to make the observer able to understand how the feeling comes through the softness of chiffon skirts once overcome the layers, within the confusion of the prints.
Fabrics that I will be using are: laser cut leather, essential to the better accomplishment of the comparison, chiffon to enhance lightness, felt for the thickness of emotion.