Corinne Aquilino
Università Iuav di Venezia
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Fashion Design, Year 3
22 years old
Castelveccana (Varese), Italy
Schools have been among the first institutions to adapt to the new measures of quarantine. How did your school react to the state of emergency? In your opinion, what are the pros and cons of online classes?
Definitely the negative part of online classes is the lack of contact and direct interaction both with teachers but also with other students. However, at home I had the chance to go deeper into my research and, above all, to experiment more with the materials, being able to use all my spaces and not finding myself off-site in a shared room in Mestre.
The Fashion and Design Industries have been aggressively afflicted by the state of quarantine and social distancing. As a consumer, but also as a future insider of those systems, what do you think the worst consequences of this crisis will be?
The worst consequences will certainly be the economic ones, honestly I am living in a moment of total confusion in which I cannot imagine what could happen, right now I have only hope.
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?
Creativity must be nourished and in this period I have had a lot of time to think. I like to build atmospheres starting from different elements that I find in the movies I watch, the music I listen to, the feelings I feel, the environments and the people around me. Like solving a puzzle. In order to do this I need to deepen all the elements that I decide to examine, then doing visual, sound, literary research starting from the condition in which I find myself. Definitely the quarantine atmosphere will be part of my degree collection I'm working on.