About Me
Hi! I’m Stella Ollus, womenswear design graduate from NTU
I am a creative thinking womenswear designer and illustrator combining my passion for art and fashion to create outstanding pieces with innovative design details and material processes with sustainable thinking. My aspiration is to make people feel beautiful and confident, which is why I especially enjoy making designs with flattering pattern cutting in mind.
I enjoy making connections between personal subjects and art, and implementing my findings onto fashion design. My final major project for example, combines themes from my dreams with the surrealist art movement. During this last year, I have designed a successfully launched collection project in collaboration with a luxury fashion boutique in Finland while studying at NTU fulltime, evidencing my determination in this field. I am eager to keep educating myself in different areas of fashion design and being involved with different projects.
INSPIRATION
I drew my initial inspiration from my own nightmares and the surrealist art movement
My collection, Irreal, looks at my own issues with nightmares and sleep paralysis on a personal level. My nightmares, often very memorable with repetitive key themes, share quite a few attributes with the iconic art of the Surrealist movement. Surrealist art and its artists is something that has interested me from an early age due to the dreamlike aesthetics they often portray that I associate my nightmares with.
I researched the main characteristics of my nightmares and connected them with surrealist art and its principals. My aim was to create a collection representing the darkness and ethereality of my nightmares, while also breaking them down in the process, helping me understand my ‘subconscious’-self. My portfolio showcases the process from research to final products, presenting the development of ideas and design details, fabric manipulation and material solutions.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Irreal womenswear collection by Stella Ollus
Concept looking at Surrealism and my nightmares
Research of themes from my dreams
Visualising the key themes from my nightmares
Design development for staircase inspired bolero
Design development for leather coat
Fabric swatches and colour palette
Material processes explaining the manipulations
Final line up of collection
The collection range
Outfit breakdowns
Final photoshoot images
Leather coat
DETAIL
I designed, created and manufactured designer level garments and looks based on my concept.
My final garments for this collection are manufactured on a high level and feature materials like off-cut and B-grade leather, donated deadstock fabrics and re-used trims from toiles to be more sustainable. The leather coat features off-cut leathers engraved with my monogram, which makes the uneven texture off the B-grade leathers invisible. My reversible dress is made out of donated deadstock fabrics and features a technique of combining/bonding to different fabrics together, one of which is laser cut with my print. The pleated bolero of my second final look is ombré dyed by me and features little to no sewing or pattern cutting.
irreal [adjective] ir·re·al | \ i-ˈrē(-ə)l , ˌi(r)- \ Definition of irreal : not real - Merriam-Webster
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