portfolio beatrice rodolfi
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my name is Beatrice,
starting from my own experiences, I like to investigate the relationship between one’s nature and the surrounding environment to discover different human perspectives and translate them into fashion tales. Always looking for contrasting emotions and fascinated by their bonding and creative potential, I approach fashion design as a tool to give life to shareable feelings that strike people’s guts. After graduating in Fashion and Knitwear Design at the Politecnico of Milan, I completed a Master in Fashion Design at Domus Academy. Currently I am working as a Junior Designer at Neil Barrett.
FASHION DESIGN COMMON PLACES January 2018, Domus Academy
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March 2018, Domus Academy capsule collection in collaboration with Max Mara Group
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October 2018, Domus Academy capsule collection in collaboration with the brand MM6
KNITWEAR DESIGN THE LAST STOP December 2016, Politecnico of Milan design of a capsule collection in collaboration with Missoni
INTERCONNECTION July 2017, Politecnico of Milan BA graduation collection
COMMON PLACES Looking at what does not live to attract the eyes, but everything that, meek and silent, accompanies our daily gestures. A detached gaze settles on the industrial landscapes of the Northern Italy provinces, my birthplace, emphasizing its most raw and blunt appearance. The brutality and desolation of these areas become the protagonists of a harsh and dreamless reality for those who daily live it. Yet, there is another kind of gaze with we can address to what surrounds us. A much intimate and closer vision, almost as if we could touch what we see with our eyes. Linking reality to illusion by filtering phisicality with personal sensitivity. As the Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri did, capturing with his photographs the humanity of suburban landscapes. Common Places is an invitation to perceive the world looking beyond shapes, surfaces and space to discover the invisible links which unveil beauty in the mediocrity. Uniqueness in the ordinary A life-story in an empty parking lot.
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PERSONAL IDENTITY CAPSULE COLLECTION PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH GIANFRANCO FERRÉ FOUNDATION
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Italian Landscape, Luigi Ghirri
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MOONLESS NIGHT 19-4203 TCX NAVY BLAZER 19-3923 TCX CHIVE 19-0323 TCX DAPPLE GREY 16-3907 TCX ARCTIC ICE 13-4110 TCX BURNISHED LILAC 15-1905 CX TANNIN 17-1320 TCX
GINGER BREAD 18-1244 TCX
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rubberised fabric
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hand-painted eco-leather
velvet
nylon
microfiber
courduroy
cotton popeline
polyester
stretch polyester mesh
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THE COLLECTION The design of the collection has been developed according to an evolutionary logic. Starting from a negative and dark perception of the surrounding reality, gradually, we witness a contamination with a more intimate gaze. The fabrics become lighter, the garments loosen up their constructions and take paler, kinder tints.
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LOOK_02 VELVET-NYLON BONDED DRESS * leather and velvet braces * open sleeves with a metal snap fastener closure * checked microfiber side inserts
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LOOK_05 MIXED FABRIC PANELED SHIRT
SIDE ZIPPERS VELVET TROUSERS
LOOK_09 LEATHER PANELED TOP
A-LINE SKIRT IN BONDED FABRICS
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HEADS UP A student runs swiftly between tugs, shoutings and laughters on the crowded streets of the fifth arrondissement, in Paris. An empty space on one of the Sorbonne facades is her destination, armed with freedom of speech and a canister she writes: Soyez rÊalistes, demandez l’impossible. The year was 1968. Fascinated by the unprecedented power of these demonstrations, the project reflects the sense of possibility, the shifting energy of human beings joining forces and the rough strength that comes directly from the city streets. Collecting the photographs of those who lived the uprising in the first rows, I investigated the attitude, the gestures and the look of women, students and workers who marched arm-in-arm. The Heads Up collection further explores the essence of 1968, questioning where the spirit of revolution lies nowadays, starting from a renewed individual engagement. Only for women bold as love.
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CAPSULE COLLECTION FOR SPORTMAX FALL/WINTER 2018 PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MAX MARA GROUP
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SILHOUETTES Above: three looks composed by selecting and styling vintage pieces mostly from the 60s and 70s, with a touch of 80s sportwear. The uniform of today’s revolutionary boldly mixes the comfort of home-wear, such as dressing gowns, with sleeker tailored garments lastly enriching them with functional details borrowed from the military world.
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2. matt nylon
4.pied de poule wool
5. printed wh
1.handknitted ribs in merino wool
3.padded nylon
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7.nappa leather
hite denim
6.wool jersey
7.blue denim
core
seasonal POINCIANA 18-1564 TCX
IRON GATE 19-3910 TCX
CABERNET 19-1724 TCX
EVENING BLUE 19-3815 TCX
BLACK ONYX 19-4003 TCX
DARK BLUE 19-4035 TPX
BLANC DE BLANC 11-4800 TCX
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RUSSET ORANGE 16-1255 TPG
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THE COLLECTION
PRINT 1_CROWD CAMOUFLAGE Inspired by the phisycal nature of mass protests in 1968 a strong graphic translation of the crowd, its movement, energy and composition.
HOODED QUILTED NYLON PARKA
SCUBA T- SHIRT
SLEEVELESS KNIT RIBBED DRESS
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QUILTING_ HANDSHAKE Contrasting color stitichinig on nylon inspired by the handholdings seen in the first rows of protestants
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PRINT 2 _ LA RUE The desires of the Protestants found their purest expression in the slogans and the affichĂŠs they scrawled and pasted on the walls, adopting the city walls as their own personal billboards, claiming for an absolute freeing of the human self.
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PRINTED AND QUILTED DENIM JACKET Boxy fit denim jacket feauturing raglan sleeves, a hidden closure with snap fasteners and two side zipped pockets.
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UNCANNY RIPE A journey of mischief and innocence, a story of a child growing up in between two separate cultures, tracing the path of fun and games through a simulated adulthood. The desire to wear their parent’s clothes as an act of play. A fiction, a performance, driven by curiosity and a desire to explore a distant but so deceptively close reality, the grown-ups world. The depiction is derived from the combination of the American and Japanese imagery in the ‘50s. The colour tones and the conceptual mix of fabrics have been adapted from Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu cult movie – Good Morning - which portrays peculiar expressions of a variety of checks and layered wools intact with muted tones like vintage green, steel blue, ox-blood red, and soft beige. While from the consciousness outlook of American children came the memories of tiny salopettes, jumpsuits and rubberish raining coats. The resulting silhouette presents techniques such as layering, deconstruction and an ecstatic blend of multipurpose elements such as reversible attire, giving the freedom to choose how to wear the garment. A remind for the viewer that sometimes even clothes are meant to be played with.
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CAPSULE COLLECTION FOR MM6 FALL/WINTER 2019 PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MM6 BRAND
THE CHILD AND
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THE ADULT WORLD
The Children Living in Washington Heights photography by Gasho Yamamura
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03.10.18 Alice playing while wearing an 80’s jacket found at the Humana shop that day.
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THE IMPOSSIBLE FAMILY An American kid with Japanese parents
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VINTAGE GARMENTS STUDY 1. double collar man jacket, 1980s 2. short sleeved top open on the back, taken from a 1990s suit 3. checked pied de poule blazer, 1990s
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CABERNET 19-1724 TCX
PALE BLUE 13-4804 TCX
EGRET 11-0103 TCX
SWEET PEA 15-0531 TCX
CINNAMON STICK 18-345 TCX shots from Good Morning, by Yasujiro Ozu
MAGNET 19-3901 TCX
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boiled wool
double rafia-jersey knit
checked pied de poule wool
floral jacquard
wrinkled heavy jersey
cotton jersey
pvc with finger-printed flowers
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PRINT 1_NEGATIVE FINGERTIPS Recreation of the traditional floral pattern of the kimonos as a kid would do it, using their fingertips to draw the petals of the flowers.
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COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
OVER vs MINI
TAILORED KIMONO
ADJUSTABLE FEATURES
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THE LAST STOP A trip not to arrive, to reach a concrete goal, but to travel, to learn to lose and find yourself. A road through savage natural stretches of sand and sky, contaminated by the presence of the symbols of the typical American imagination, diner and service stations, once a place of aggregation and vitality, now a consciousness of darkness, of the impossibility of communication. Absolute desolation. The same emotion is felt in the face of the enormous canvases of the exponents of Abstract Expressionism, especially those of Rothko, striking for their intensity and spontaneity. An ascetic research of the unconventional beauty dominated by loneliness and silence, which take on positive meanings and tingle with soft shade and earth colors, to degrade towards the darkness of the night illuminated by faint flashes, which are an element of disturbance, a constant in the collection.
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THE LAST STOP
CAPSULE COLLECTION PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH MISSONI
POMEGRANATE
PEACHES N’ CREAM
PRISTINE
ORCHIDE TINT
BILLOWING SAIL BALTIC SEA
BLACK IRIS
HARBOR GRAY ARCADIAN GREEN CANDIED GINGER SAND
BUTTERCUP
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SLEEVE SLEEVE X2 X2
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MACHINE MACHINE SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS
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0/370 passages STITCHES STITCHES rib 1:1
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90 needles Finished with linkin machine
OTHER OTHER MATERIALS MATERIALS 68 needles
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COLLAR
PATCHWORK COAT
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Brother Knitting Machine, Finesses 5
The 52 pieces composing the coat were produced on a Brother Knitting Machine mainly using the stocking stitch and the rib Stocking Tensioncombiation 1.2 / Rib 1:1 Tension 3 stitch. Every single piece is Stitch a unique of bouclè, merino, cotton yarns and mutliple pastel shades. Finally they were manually combined 4with a looping machine. Cut and sew knits Cotton liningSTOP for the pockets THE LAST Hand-sewn hem and facings
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INTER CONNECTION A girl walks home alone at night is the debut movie of a young female director and is also the starting point of the Interconnection project. The film, an atypical “vampire spaghetti western� performed in Persian language, is a cinematic blend of violence and innocence, epic and daily, discipline and lightness, imbued with a striking harmony. However, A girl walks home alone at night, is mostly a story of love and connection between two young outsiders. Two lonely and distant characters who had the courage to fight the fear of the other and search for a true bond. The world they live in is a mixture of culturally and temporarily conflicting elements which are torn from their original context to be re-signified. The collection explores the concepts of connection, hybridization and fading contrast combining knitwear and traditional fabrics with artisanal techniques.
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19-1531TCX sun-dried tomato 18-1763 TCX high risk red 16-1320 TPG nougat
11-2309 TPX petal pink #FFFFFF white 11-0601 TPX bright white 12-4609 TCX starlight blue
16-3915 TPX alloy 19-3933 TCX medieval blue 19-3911 TCXB black beauty
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The movie narration is built on fading contrast, in order to recreate this visual feeling I used the needle felting technique to connect knitwear and traditional fabrics such as denim.
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OPEN-BACK SWEATER Composed by two ribbed knit pieces, combined together using manual needle-felting. Along the sleeves runs a cotton cord that will turn into a leather strap by closing the sweater on the back of the neck.
WOOL-FELTED JEANS High-waisted jeans with contrasting red stitching, combined with melange knit panels using the needle-felting technique.
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ASIMMETRIC VANISÉ SKIRT
DAVANTI costa piatta in vanisè
DAVANTI vanisè
322-350p. 1c x 4p x 5v
322-350p. 1c x 4p x 5v
42-322p. 1c x 5p x 58v
42-322p. 1c x 5p x 58v
5- 42p sospensioni 0 - 40 p 1c x 3p x
5- 42p sospensioni 0 - 40 p 1c x 3p x 11v cimosa
cimosa
150 aghi
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thank you for your time
email : beatrice.rodolfi@gmail.com mobile phone : +39 342 754 0329