Alice Firman

My collection is A Study of Emotional Vulnerability through the analysis of gestures framed within intimate fragments of reality. I want my clothes to feel like a fragile memory of a moment you want to treasure.

The link between our brain and our emotive system has caused a strong and thought-provoking response within my work.

I have deeply researched into the field of psychoanalysis and the discovery of the subconscious from its beginning with Freud and Jung, to contemporary thinkers like Merleau Ponty and Stefan Klein, and how these theories have been translated into the visual languages of many artists, photographers and painters from Klimt and Schiele all the way to Peter Lindbergh.

From this academic study I decided to carry out my own study of the subconscious through the analysis of posture and gestures seen as the language of a person while they are silent. Framing the soft lines of the body gestures within the straight lines of tailoring has been the methodology behind the construction of my garments and will be for my future work.