SHOLLYJAAY

Ancient Egyptian inspired the journey to this collection. Researching into the history and life of the ancient Egyptian led into deeper research onto hieroglyphs, which means ‘sacred’ and ‘engrave’.Looked for a parallel between the ancient and modern to make research relevant to the here and now.Thus looking at modern sacred architecture, which leads to the ‘Lotus Temple’ in New Delhi, which later played a big part in the realization of this collection.
The interpretation of these themes leads to a strong, futuristic, edgy collection featuring harder edges, structured layering, fabric engraving and stripes. Collection consists of garments that features hybridised fabric with the combination of luxurious silk grosgrain sewn on a ribbed fabric (used for the underlining of spacesuits which have aerodynamic and astronomic uses) to give a ribbed, ripple, stripy effects.Fabric used consists of Silk velvets, cotton velvets and Lycra velvets, featuring hieroglyphics engraved on them.Printed grosgrain fabric featuring hieroglyphics.This collection is the fusing of Art, history and fashion.