Gabrielle Szwarcenberg
Fashion Design MA
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Womenswear / Accessories / Footwear
My location: Antwerp, Belgium
Gabrielle Szwarcenberg
First Name: Gabrielle
Last Name: Szwarcenberg
University / College: Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Course / Program: Fashion Design MA
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Womenswear / Accessories / Footwear
My Location: Antwerp, Belgium
About
Harnessing my interdisciplinary approach, I’ve turned personal cognitive challenges into creative strengths by using fashion as a three-dimensional medium to express vulnerability. Fascinated by the spectrum of internal landscapes, I channel my heightened sensitivity and anxiety into my work, offering others a view of the world through my neurotic lens.With a visual arts and fashion background, my passion always lies in immersing myself in research. I get excited by the knowledge that there is always more to be discovered through questioning and learning about the mundaneness of everyday life.
Paper is my daily accomplice. The ultimate prototyping medium— it captures ideas in notes, hides secrets in envelopes, offers future guidance, and prompts reflection through dog-eared corners. My master collection delves into childhood pursuits as rites of passage, celebrating how we transform boredom into ingenious creativity, from cat cradles and marble games to paper aeroplanes. Inspired by 1960s beatnik Harry Smith, who collected over 250 planes now hidden in museum archives, I revived these artefacts through the coupe and paper-like fabric manipulations. Embracing an art-for-art’s-sake ethos, the ephemeral looks provide an inadvertent retrospective of 20th-century graphic anthropology.
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