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play date

Official selection FASHIONCLASH Festival 2025

My graduation project at AMFI was an opportunity to bring together everything I’ve explored throughout my studies: apparel design, digital fashion, and storytelling.

I approached the project from a highly personal perspective, drawing from my own experiences, researching pop culture and media, and connecting those insights to broader societal themes. My technical focus was on exploring the use of pressure in CLO3D and how it interacts with different fabrics and patterns, letting material behavior guide the silhouettes and structure. All assets were textured using Substance Painter and Sampler, and I used Blender to create a short film that brings the collection and its story to life.

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Play Date is a project about the objectification and commodification of women, our bodies and our lives. Born from my personal experiences with men, where I’ve often been treated like a play thing, something for them to project their fantasies onto, rather than a human being. This is an experience that is reflected in a broader reality in which women are controlled by men, not just in personal relationships, but in culture and through legislation. From abortion bans in the US, to India’s rape crisis, we are in a global feminist urgency. Play Date adresses the policing and control of our bodies and lives.

Drawing inspiration from the world of toys, dolls, and inflatables, I present the wearer as something that is played with, shaped, and consumed. Just like toys, women are expected to endlessly reshape to fit male desires. But what happens when the perfect doll resist? When she refuses to be played with?

View my process in the slideshow below.

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Featured on FashionUnited • Part of Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary •

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