{"id":17216,"date":"2014-10-20T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=17216"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:24:15","slug":"four-antwerp-graduates-and-their-proposals-for-a-modern-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/four-antwerp-graduates-and-their-proposals-for-a-modern-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Woman:  four Antwerp fashion graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/34.jpg\" alt=\"Sleeveless top, shorts and fur coat by Virginia Burlina. Socks by Raffaela Graspointner. Shoes by WEBER HODEL FEDER.\" width=\"716\" height=\"477\" \/> Sleeveless top, shorts and fur coat by Virginia Burlina. Socks by Raffaela Graspointner. Shoes by WEBER HODEL FEDER.<\/p>\n<p>Artful, conceptual and wonderfully innovative, graduate collections are oftentimes a rather raw outpour of creative ideas; they also provide a telling reflection of the zeitgeist, therefore. Several of this year\u2019s graduates at the prestigious Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, looked more closely at notions of gendered garments and the gendering of silhouettes, only to take apart many of the conventions surrounding them. And when it wasn\u2019t the cuts and fabrics they were deconstructing, it was clich\u00e9d narratives of womanhood itself: Italian graduate Virginia Burlina, for instance, took her inspiration from the biography of outsider artist Marguerite Sir. Left at the altar, Sir spent her life in psychiatric asylums, where she would make wedding dresses from beddings.\u00a0Burlina embroidered motifs like hearts, tears, flowers and drops of blood unto romantically hued garments held together by little bows \u2013 tiny straps as symbolic reminders of the frailty of the human psyche.<br \/>\nThe French Emmanuel Beguinot based her collection on a novel by Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, telling the story of a girl raised as a boy by her family to ensure a better future for her. Searching for a malleable, gender-neutral silhouette, Beguinot sculpted her creations with integrated plastic wiring. The monochromatic pieces are otherwise classically tailored, and fuse traditionally \u201cmasculine\u201d fabrics with materials classically associated with femininity, such as pleated cr\u00eape, silk and velvet. Swedish-Chilean graduate Clara Jungman Malmquist took to \u201chousewife hobbies\u201d like appliqu\u00e9ing, quilting and embroidering and created multi-layered landscapes of inverted patch working, with cutouts making out shapes in bold colors. These were then further augmented by bursts of tulle in unexpected places. With a collection enhanced by experimental jewelry in silicone and wax, she created an original visual statement recalling both Op Art and Indian Mola quilts.<br \/>\nLastly, Austrian Raffaela Graspointner, who won the Austrian Fashion Award in 2013, sought inspiration from the modernist architecture and eclectic interior of the Eames house in L.A. With a mix of laser-cut leather, color blocking in patent leather, elaborate beading and sequin embroidery, her collection gracefully seesaws between slick production and handmade assemblages. Looks by the four young designers are mix-and-matched here in bold combinations for professional women performing the impossible modern balancing act day in and day out.<br \/>\n<strong>Photography: Mich\u00e4el Smits<\/strong> \n<strong>Stylist: Jan Konings<\/strong> \n<strong>Model: Daphne Velghe at Dominique Models<\/strong> \n<strong>Hair: Louis Ghewy at The Book Agency<\/strong> \n<strong>Make-up: Eva De Keersmaeker<\/strong> \n<strong>Photographer&#8217;s Assistant: Gretar Ingi Gunlaugsson<\/strong> \n<strong>Entnommen aus <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.sleek-mag.com\/products-page\/issues\/43-autumn-2014-youthtruth-art-cover\/\">Sleek Magazine 43: Youth\/Truth<\/a><\/strong> \n<strong>See more images from the graduate collections below<\/strong> \n<br \/>\n<strong>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/antwerp\/\">what&#8217;s up in Antwerp<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/antwerp\/\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeveless top, shorts and fur coat by Virginia Burlina. Socks by Raffaela Graspointner. Shoes by WEBER HODEL FEDER. Artful, conceptual and wonderfully innovative, graduate collections are oftentimes a rather raw outpour of creative ideas; they also provide a telling reflection of the zeitgeist, therefore. 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