@lucy.gr

Fashion Design, Year 3

21 years old

Naples, Italy

 

How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?

My daily life has quite changed. I still have to get used to all this new stuff, every day feels really weird! Just to think that the only thing you can do is not to go out... I would have never imagined my last year to be like this, without wandering all around the campus or running from one place to another, looking for new fabrics and ideas as I used to. After all, I have been living by my own in Milan for three years now. I came back in Napoli just a few days before the state of emergency was declared, I got here to study for my exams and stayed there. It wasn't easy to go back to live with my family, especially with my brother! In the past years I have never been at home for more than 10 days or so! Of course, I spend my day trying to take back the time I lost with them and using every moment to work on my thesis and finish my exams.

 

Your work is built on creativity. While we’re all in quarantine, what is your solution to keep on being creative? Where do you find your inspiration in this moment?

The solution is to never stop neither worry. My advice is just to relax and keep doing research, to never fear any kind of stop and to take inspiration even from this weird period that we are living. Personally, I find inspiration from everything; as my daily life has changed, so my hints have changed and now I look mostly to my family bubble and to social medias. I think that creativity has been really helped by alternative and new fabrics that we are finding at home.

 

What is your biggest fear right now?

Honestly, I don't have any fear. I am just very anxious. I keep thinking all the time of when things will start again and I know that it will take a lot of time before we come back to what we were used to, and it is not sure if it will ever be the same.

 

What will you do once all of this is over?

I can't wait for that moment to come! We all can't wait to turn this situation upside down.