Berlin is known for it's current volume of rising talent, artists and fashion designers are blooming out of this country at the moment, a great example is my latest stalk; Petra Vuletic.
Petra Vuletic was born
in 1990, she is a Master student at ESMOD, Berlin, finishing the programme in
2015. During the Bachelor studies she established a brand VULETICHORTIG with
her colleague Sasa Hortig. They received several awards and much recognition as
a result of their collaboration.
I caught up with her to find out more about her love for design and what inspires her..
Why did you decide to
get into fashion?
I will be honest and say that I don’t
remember, I guess I was attracted by the feeling of freedom in the fashion
industry, you could do anything and it was always contemporary. Fashion
industry is kind of obsessed with novelties, and I am not an exception. I am
still driven by that, however now I love how diverse notion of the fashion can
be and how far you go into an idea just to make a piece of wearable garment,
trend or a statement.
What is your latest
collection about?
The core idea was to draw out the contradicted
elements throughout the making of the S/S 2016 collection.
Naturally tanned fur, which is a by-product and commonly used for interior
design, adds an unsophisticated touch to the collection. This untamed fur is
combined with beautiful peace silk to engender an opposing element. Aesthetics
of the collection was inspired by the silhouette of Richard Serra's sculptures,
in which he displays the significant unification of stiffness and the natural
flow of delicate fabrics. His sculptures look very sophisticated, as they have
some flow, when they don’t. I tried to achieve that with the fur I used, and
with the homogenous colour palette.
What inspires you?
Well, inspiration is vague, I could be inspired
by what someone said or by a piece of art, but mostly it is some kind of a
philosophy that gives me a feeling of what kind of collection I want, after
that i’m circling around it, connecting pieces and technicalities that fit into
this philosophy. It is very constant and personal state, definitely not that
feeling that strikes you in the middle of the night and then you have to write
it down, because it was so sudden.
Best advice anyone has
ever given you?
The best advices are always the ones that make
you question what you normally forget to question. It’s not the advice itself,
it is where it comes from and that is repeatedly from the closest people of
mine, probably because they know me the best and know what I react to.
What has been you best
moment since starting up your brand?
Every day brings something new and pleasant, I
cannot pin point on the exact event, and I would always say the one that is
coming.
Five items you can't live without?
If I disregard essentials, and think of what I
use the most, then I would say my phone, earphones, tea, glasses and eyebrow
pencil haha.
Amazing, so stylish
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