About Me
Hi,I'm Nawoda Bandara. A fashion Designer from Northumbria University
Nawoda is a designer who is Specialized in Unisex, luxury and Street-wear fashion. Her final major project “ NO RULES LIKE DREAMS” is based on hallucinations and living in a non-existing imaginary future world in dreams. Through her designs, she tries to express emotions and bridges the gap between heritage crafts and sustainability with innovation.
While studying fashion design and textile for the past 3 years I'm proud to have developed my own original signature style. As a young designer of new age, my vision has been to combine heritage crafts and sustainability with futurism and innovation, by breaking boundaries and Experimenting with intricate pattern cutting and textile techniques to demonstrate that Fashion is escapism and a freedom of expression. My goal is to recreate the human feelings through my work and have an impact on others by giving them the freedom and self-assurance we all so desperately want through clothing .
INSPIRATION
NO RULES LIKE DREAMS
The inspiration for this sustainable luxury women's-wear collection was driven from my personal experiences of having hallucinations and sleep paralysis by investigating postmodern architecture ,alternative rock culture and twisting it with surrealism to show that there is no absolute truth or NO RULES TO FOLLOW, My inspiration came from feelings of hallucinations, sleep paralysis and colors of non existing vivid visuals such as changing patterns and creatures that reflects an imaginary future world.
Color and silhouette are huge influences in these designs as there can be no restriction and revolve around practicality and comfort. This follows structured deconstructed silhouette details and a futuristic color scheme inspired from emotion color wheels and Each color represents feelings of having hallucinations is an approach to resonate emotions through clothing. This collection provides a more sustainable approach by linking crafts with innovation and uses light weight waste fabric materials.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
written concept
concept board
color and fabric
muse board
final line up
LOOK 1 - development
LOOK 2 - development
LOOK 3 - development
LOOK 4 - development
LOOK 5 - development
LOOK 6 - development
LOOK 1 - technical flats
LOOK 2 - technical flats
LOOK 3 - technical flats
LOOK 4 - technical flats
LOOK 5 - technical flats
LOOK 6 - technical flats
Gesture lineups
Styling board
DETAIL
INTRICATE STRUCTURED DETAILS AND HOW I BRIDGED THE GAP BETWEEN CRAFTS AND SUSTAINABILITY.
My final collection is nurturing from local crafts that runs in the blood line of heritage fashion in Sri Lanka such as hand-loom, knit-wear and crochet techniques. I've experimented with yarns that are significantly more difficult to weave with, which have been mastered, to create exciting, textured weaved and knitted fabric. I used the yarns of dead-stock knitted collars by unraveling the yarn from it to link sustainability with crafts. For hand-loom I experimented with double weaving technique and 3d weaving techniques to come up with unique weaving patterns using second hand yarns. The designs were inspired by the tangled and twisting night thoughts and hallucinations and moving geometric visuals I experience . I employed a combination of traditional techniques like quilting, patchwork , hand painting with crafts. My garment structures from top to bottom were inspired by post modern architecture and encapsulated with key details of tailored jackets and filled with futuristic intricate details.
" Fashion is like a canvas. I'm always exploring, discovering and learning new possibilities " - Nawoda Bandara
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