Matilde Manca
NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Roma
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Fashion Design, Year 1
21 years old
Rome, Italy
The Fashion and Design Industries have been aggressively afflicted by the COVID-19 emergency. As a consumer, but also as a future insider of those systems, what will be the worst consequences of this crisis?
Of course, there are going to be many critical and painful facets, but we must respond to those moments with the ability to understand that when we are warned by a signal that is so huge, we can't use the same schemes that we did before. We need to be able to re-invent ourselves, and this has always been a peculiarity of the fashion and creative world. The challenge is higher, but only because we need to win.
Your work is built on creativity. Where do you find your inspiration in this moment?
Creativity comes from pictures, memories, thoughts, stories that are already inside of ourselves; if you want to be creative, you have to always want some more, to enrich yourself, never stop discovering and knowing. My hints are born from the stories that we tell each other at home, from the books I read, the movies I see; in a moment when I can't look outside, I look on the inside, around me: my walls, my cds, my books, pictures and magazines that I never cared of and that now are a fundamental part of my luggage. My friends are also a hint themselves, when we chat we always come up with brand new ideas.