MOOD BOARD/ DESIGN Photo Album
Design Photo Album (series) shares the creative processes and inspirations, that shape design. In this first edition, fashion designer Latifa Neyazi reveals her mood board from textile dying, to influence of the deep lapis lazuli blue from Afghanistan’s mountains, and fashion illustrations. Through textiles, sketches, and curated fragments, she traces how tradition and terrain shape her visual language.
Woven Earth/ Artists’ Photo Album
Artists’ Photo Albums invites practitioners to open their digital drawers, showcasing never-seen-before work, inspirations, and unanswered questions. Through the second edition titled Woven Earth we dive into Usoa García Sagüés’ artistic research, which explores an alternative motherhood story through textile sculpture.
WENDI YAN
As the AI increasingly divides fiction and reality, artist Wendi Yan guides us to question: “As an artist, I don’t fear the increasing blurriness between facts and fiction driven by AI so much as I fear that we lose awareness of how narratives shape our realities. Those with power are always promoting narratives that legitimize and strengthen their power.” Through her multidisciplinary practice, that encompasses scientific research in collaboration with MIT scientists, speculative fiction, with AI, Yan’s work challenges historic narratives through imaginative world-building.
Diana Orving
Former fashion designer and artist Diana Orving transforms textiles into living, breathing sculptures that inhabit and redefine space. Through her work, the artist is shaping immersive and sensory environments: “I think fashion could learn from architecture’s structural thinking, and architecture from fashion’s intimacy and adaptability. If both moved toward softer, more responsive systems—adaptable skins, living structures—we might dress and build in ways that are more human.”