My name is Alessa Scivoli, I study fashion design in my now 10th semester. The two outfits from my semesterproject from summer 2022 project I am applying with is from my 8th semester.
My base was a text I wrote about queerness and longing for archives, history, space.
for f*kcs sake – a collection based on discarded garments and a view on how to define newness and quotes from the archive(s).
The archive I am referring to is the catholic church, gothic architecture, heteronormative festive clothing – queer empowerment and reclamation as what is new to create newness from the existing archive.
Mein Name ist Alessa Scivoli und ich studiere Modedesign im 10 Semester an der Burg Giebichenstein. Die beiden Outfits mit denen ich mich bewerbe, entstanden im Sommersemester 2022. Die Grundlage meiner arbeiten war ein selbstgeschriebener Text über Queerness und das verlangen nach eigener Geschichte, nicht-existenten Archiven und Räumen in der Vergangenheit.
For F*kcs Sake – eine Kollektion basierend auf aussortierten Kleidungsstücken und dem Versuch Neuheit zu verstehen und Zitate aus "dem Archiv" neu zu definieren.
We
are young and old, timeless, ubiquitous
we are the grandchildren of the witches you couldn’t burn
we are not gender neutral, we are gender-fuck
we’ve always been here,
queer
evading the categories you want to force us in
visible
invisible
in the underground
on the streets
we are vulnerable, yet invincible
we are the troublemaking revoltees
society’s time traveling traumas
bringing it up again
and again
intertwining lives that have not existed in a parallel space
reincarnating until our collective pain will be resolved
do not neutralize us
today
you can not mute us anymore
maybe
we can find a glimpse of hope in the next generation
a full circle moment
until then
soil to soil
dust to dust
ashes to ashes
implicit is the knowledge
that comes with
coming out
of a closet – some say
or
coming out of
societal compulsions
or a history of suppressing oneself
and looking at a history told from the oppressor’s eye
most of the time
now
we connect the dots along the timelines
we recognize our ancestors
ancestors not by blood
but by love and suffering
and we built our archives destroyed in the fires archives destroyed by silence and shame
archives that never existed in the first place
archives we deserve and long for
we remember you
and we will be remembered
because today we insert our own threads into the fabric of the story
so
you will not unsee us again
you can not unsee us again
you can’t extinct our existence
again
in this fabric we wrap our queer bodies and we create our future
in this fabric we hide or thrive, we long for soothing and peace, for warmth and shelter
we take those clothes out of the closet
onto the catwalk we step
into the spotlights
we fill in the blank spaces where we have been left out
we contribute to this cloth of society
and our red thread will not be removed again
let me remember you
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
(8th commandment)
Thou shalt not steal.
(7th commandment)
Thou shalt not kill.
(5th commandment)
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
(2nd commandment)
you can not mute us anymore
maybe
we can find a glimpse of hope in the next generation
a full circle moment
until then
soil to soil
dust to dust
ashes to ashes
instagram: @alessasci
brand:new – supervised by Prof. Lars Paschke & AA Dominik Cosentino
@burg_fashion_design @burg_halle
summer '22 collection – for f*kcs sake – a collection based on discarded garments and a view on how to define newness and quotes from the archive(s).
the archive I am referring to is the catholic church, gothic architecture, heteronormative festive clothing – queer empowerment and reclamation as what is new to create newness from the existing archive.
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