Sustainable Challenge 2024: Carnival of Insurrectionist Couture, a Decolonial Practice. These looks resulted from three days of the creation and sewing marathon, with 30 students of different ages and backgrounds.
Look for Violeta Silvestre by Pranita Jampal, Inez Carmen van Kessel, Karola Keusch, Javier Domínguez and Ana Ramirez Gallego. The project focuses on collectivity and roots as resistance, interweaving elements that tell stories of struggle and resilience against exploitation and cultural erasure. Community, roots, struggle.
Look for Paula Soli by Rhodel Mintah, Lolitha Molhoop, Macarena Cianciarulo, Jana Pujol Montiel, Claudia Torres Lopez. Inspired by the fluidity of identities, this group proposes designs that break binary barriers and exalt individual empowerment as resistance to colonial and gender norms. Identity, empowerment, fluidity.
Look for Jourdan by Laura Lambert, Lylia Staykova, Úrsula Suarez Bazo, Elisa Legórburu and Laura Armili Palmero. The project reimagines the relationship between body and earth through a sensorial game with textures and shapes, proposing a fashion that embodies processes of change and rebirth, challenging the rigid structures of colonialism. Identity, textures, green.
Look for Habtam Broeen Castiñeira by Zimin Wang, Xyantyisairah Burger, Samuel Bomboko, Ioan Sagaan Alb and Maria Fernanda Moreno. Through their design, they claim roots and ancestral memory as a transformative force, emphasizing community struggle as a path towards social and decolonial justice. Roots, identity, community, struggle.
Look for Rosana Blooms by Louis Roman, Daniela Corleto, Mariama Ed Daoudi, Susana Martínez and María Rey. IT explores the symbolic connection between flowers and transformation, highlighting blossoming as an act of resistance against oppressive systems from a decolonial perspective and in harmony with nature. To flourish, to transform.
Look for Bella Mena by Alizeh Ahmad, Mera van Boxtel, Nicole Betancourt, Ignacio Ortolano Rodríguez, Leady Marcela Calle Cristancho. This design celebrates community bonds and rituals as spaces of resistance and collective care, reclaiming the practice of weaving communities as an anti-capitalist and anti-racist tool. Community, bond, community rituals.
Credits:
VEIN Magazine in collaboration with Modafad
Photography by Laura Encursiva
Make-up and hair by Itziar Nzang
Curator Sustainable Challenge 2024: Lucia Piedra.
Tutors: Lizette Nin, Roshni Kavate, Karim Adduci and Sofia Archer.
Lee también: Hablamos con Lucia Piedra, la comisaria del Sustainable Challenge 2024
