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maewa uhlmann

Fashion textiles designer, Maewa Uhlmann's thesis collection is inspired by 90’s sportswear, street life, graffiti and its freedom and roughness of expression. This is seen in the layers and loose drape cutting evident throughout the collection. The colours are influenced by tracksuits and the paint marks are a free expression of sports stripes. It is a youthful collection for a woman who loves art, design and

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music. She likes luxury but also wants to be casual and effortless. The mix between easy and sophisticated pieces is an important contrast in the collection. The collection plays with codes, style and attitude. Creative pattern cutting is explored in order to find new ways of constructing garments by using straps, suspensions and drape.