@r.emss

Fashion design, Year 2

19 anni

Casal Di Principe (Caserta), Italy

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

From March 9th, 2020 my daily routine has completely changed. Until then, my life was busy, always running between trains to go to school, deadlines, sew lessons and also my social life. Then I went from too much to nothing; from waking up at 6 am to not having the perception of time, from being creative to the fear of not having new ideas, because the greatest victim of this situation is creativity. I try to fulfill my day with lessons, calls with friends, drawings, painting and music, even if it is difficult to do all of these stuff just because I'm passionate about them, knowing that this is the only way to break my monotony; being forced, I can't enjoy my needs.

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?

My creativity is the greatest victim of this situation, since I'm used to live by the inspirations coming from everything that surrounds me: sounds, noise, images and experiences. I stock all of this in my mind, then released them in the few quite times I have in my day. At first, for me it was very difficult to create something, because I was isolated at home and everything I created was not just for passion, but because I needed it, and that left me with no satisfaction in what I was doing. Right now, I look for inspiration in music, in my family's photo-albums and in my notebooks full of notes, trying to re-interpretate my life and live once more my childhood emotions, playing tricks with my mind and telling myself that I'm finally free.

What is your biggest fear right now?

To turn off. I'm scared that this experience might affect my creativity and turn me into a "basic" person. I'm scared that I will not be able to live the dreams with which I fed myself at night, to stay awake and study or sew all night long, I'm scared that I might come out of this experience without being the idealistic guy I used to be.

What will you do once all of this is over?

I always try to imagine my future and I'm picturing it as I would love it to be, with my desire for getting lost and finding myself in places I would have never thought, new places full of new opportunities. I can't wait to tell the world who I am, my ideas, my feelings; I want to live everything that I've always wanted, trying to find the balance that I have had in my mind for a long time.