JILL SANDREY

JS: I’m jill and my focuses are in, well, I make clothes and I illustrate and I like to make films.
nativefunkandflash: so what are you making?
JS: I’m making a clothing collection, but its much more about the feeling as opposed to the clothes. Because of that I’m also making a film and a lot of still images and its inspired by youth, which has been a constant for me, as well as a lot of theoretical stuff about time and space and a whole bunch of other lofty ideas.
nff: what are you inspired by?
JS: The thing that most inspires me is youth, being young and that potential, but also the aspect of watching that potential die in front of you. And having so much hope but also the duality of being completely destroyed by things and people. Then also with that, as a teenager I was always inspired by space and stars so that was something that came into play this semester.
nff: describe your process.
JS: When I make clothes I really start out by sketching with fabric…I just try something and if it doesn’t work then I discard it but if it does then I just keep going and building like that, like layering.
nff: what about materials?
JS: I definitely have a certain sense about textiles…I like a certain kind, like colors and softness is really important, and sheerness…I’m attracted to a certain style…ethereal kind of stuff but I don’t know why exactly, just always have been
nff: do you see this collection as being continued after school? do you see your work going in a certain direction after school?
JS: I think that I’ll always make films. I’ve been collaborating a lot with my brother who’s a musician, so I think that’s something I’ll always do, but I don’t know about clothes…I don’t really like the fashion world so I don’t know if I’m going to stick around there. I’m going to go to grad school so we’ll see. Not right now though…I’m taking a year off, working. The reason I want to go to grad school is cause I want to be able to teach on a college level, so if there’s a program where I can do art education I would.

S&M

S: I’m Stella…and this is Moira and we created a brand together called S&M, which we decided is more of a production company. We both love making clothes and in particular making narrative based costumes. The idea is that people communicate themselves through their clothes consciously or subconsciously and we wanted to bring that forward into our work.
nativefunkandflash: so what are you making?
M: Well, we create whole experiences with our films and our stories and our clothes…we run the full circle…it’s not disconnected that when a person wears the clothes or sees the movie they have the connection to the clothing or to the story or the film.
S: We wanted the story to continue after the film was over, so we write these stories about these characters and we want them to connect with these characters and once they put on the clothes maybe embody some of the parts that they like about the characters--
M: --and integrating the story they now make it a part of their life, so they continue the story in their own way.
nff: What are you inspired by?
S: Just…people. I like meeting people—M: --yeah! that’s what I was gonna say!
S: the reason why I love traveling and doing what I’m doing now is just learning why other people do what they do, cause I can’t think the way they do…and just learning who they are and what makes up them as a person…cause that’s exactly how I think what makes clothes work and not work…is not what they wear but who they are.
M: and I’m also really inspired by people especially, just because their capacity for emotion and personality and just how everyone is capable of so many different ways. every time I meet someone I see that they have a complete story behind their life and that they’re capable of all these different emotions that one doesn’t normally think about when you pass someone in the street everyday, but everyone is full of all these beautiful stories and, it’s inspiring.
nff: describe your process.
S: This is a new process for the both of us, so what I’ve been doing now is taking a topic—something I want to do in my mind—right now I’m doing a second screenplay which is about traveling and so based on that I write a narrative, and through that narrative I imagine the clothes that she would be wearing or he would be wearing, and draw clothes from that. And usually during this process I talk to Moira about it and tell her the story and then she helps me out with it.
M: My process for working in general is I always have created a sort of story around things and then literally working from story to things. my process is very difficult by myself because when I get to the point of actually making I draw back and get scared always, and it always happens, so it’s helpful working with stella because I can’t have that hesitation, and it’s good having her motivation and feedback and how she can see it from a different way that I’m not seeing it.
nff: what about materials?
M: We’re working with set design, a lot of found objects and regular, everyday objects and elevating them to a more magical sense because of the way we’re using them, so it’s simple things like newspaper and cardboard, but because of the way we’re presenting it they’re magical and you believe it
S: We’re trying to encourage that you can find magic—
M: --in everyday life, it’s everywhere, you just have to see it and bring it out
nff: Do you see this collection as being continued after school?
M: Yes. And continuing working on our brand and making more things as we can until we can afford to do that by itself.

BRIANNA CAPOZZI

www.briannacapozzi.com

BC:my name is brianna capozzi and i'm a senior in IDC my main focuses are fashion design and fine art.

nativefunkandflash: so what are you making?

BC:right now i am making a collection of garments and also i am in the process of creating a book that is a hard cover magazine book, maybe like a coffee table book you'd call that. and as well as a video which as of now is planned to be a 1 hour visual film that moves really slow.

NFF: so what are you inspired by?

BC: i am inspired by street fashion, adolescence, highschoolers. this collection specifically started off with me inspired by highschool and suburbia and it has kinda drifter to a more urban end of things. its a mix between both. and for example the other day i saw a guy, i shouldn't give away my ideas but i saw a guy i always see these kids walking home form school and they always have these double backpacks on they have their backpack on and a gym bag on. i thought about how that would be a great idea and i want to make a bag that is a double bag like that. it would be super different.

NFF: describe your process

BC: well like i said id see that backpack and then id just go home and make it in a different way. i was thinking about making it in a white transparent version of that. but i kinda just have an idea and go home and make it right away or ill probably be over it.

NFF: what about materials?

BC: umm.. sometimes i use found materials and from salvation army or things that people give me. and also i go uptown to the garment district and buy fabrics that i have been planning, but sometimes i just go and see the materials and the materials influences what i want to make and vice versa.

NFF: do you see this collection as being continued after school?

BC: well, i am really . i move really quickly in the way that i work. like i said i was doing highshcool and suburbia and then it moved into more urban settings. so i am always kinda changing and evolving my idea which kinda makes it hard for me to have such a cohesive collection. so its almost like i need to make mini collections maybe with the time period i am in. i am struggling with this right now because already i am in a transition into my next ideas it is hard to stick to the old ones if you already aren't into them as you were. so definitely a continuation of making clothing but i am not sure if it will be this specific ideas.

NFF: do you see your work going in a certain direction after school?

BC: yeah but i don't know what direction that is exactly.

the gift
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