giacomopagnone_

BA in Fashion Design, III year

21 years old

Biella, 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?

It depends on the discipline and the type through which it is communicated. Regarding the workshops, for me the teaching in presence remains better, both for the exchange of energy with the teachers and for some technical difficulties in explaining the project. For other disciplines there are some challenges that distance teaching has solved, for example the lack of seats in the classroom, the sharing of slides or even listening to the lesson with good audio quality.

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 fashion industry does not only use creativity in the making of the objects it produces, but also in managing and changing the system according to different needs. This situation stopped the world and gave us the opportunity to examine our recent past, I, like many others, realized that fashion needed to slow down and to be, as it happened in the post-war period with Monsieur Dior, the representation of the needs and desires that we breathe in people's moods. As a buyer, I won't buy lightly anymore, but I will give importance to every object I want to make my own, as a future worker, I'm very curious to see how the future will evolve.

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?

At first it was hard to adapt to the new situation, as a fashion design student I have my own world, made of feelings, stories and people. It was very useful and essential for me to find a way to experience this place for a few moments of the day, I did it by watching movies, reading photographic books and writing stories. The mind really has a thousand resources and it's in moments like these that you realize it.