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Una Burke graduated Fashion Artefact at London College of Fashion. This is a branch studying the problematic of accessories evolving into wearable works of art. The collection she graduated with was very appreciated, winning many awards: Finalist in The Accessories Category of The International Fashion Competition IT’S Eight, Winner of The LCF Off-Catwalk Award for Best Design Collection, The Irish Innovations Fashion Awards.
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The main themes chosen by the artist are related to psychology, like the traumatic experiences which a person goes through. Although she didn’t study psychology, she is fascinated by the people and their behaviour and the way in which people build their emotional barriers as a result of a trauma, therefore the artist calls herself a “people watcher”.
Una Burke has her mother as inspiration, taking from the way this one gets over difficulties with a lot of optimism, and due to her projects Una also wants to transform the negative in positive.
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The material she works with is leather, since she prefers it due to the fact that it can be manually manipulated, due to its durability and its sculptural quality. Being raised in a farm, Una Burke understands the process of life and death for animals and she understands how wonderful and magical are all natural materials:
“I think that it is a very important starting point, to have great respect for the materials that you work with and where they have come from.”
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The artist plays with skin forms and structures, working with its easiness and on a process that is more conceptual. For example “Hunchback Jacket” starts from the shape of the hips, moved behind the jacket, thus looking like a hunchback, the result still being harmonious and a temporal. She raises questions like what is beauty? What is considered ugly and how can the ugly be seen as beautiful in other circumstances?
photo unaburke.com
photo unaburke.com
The artist kept together her style by working with fur, but her works became more wearable and they can be purchased from her site: “I’m making some more useable pieces so people who have admired my work in the past can actually purchase a piece of it that they can really wear. I seem to just have this style that always comes ouţ when I come to play around. ”
She dressed stars like Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera and Daphne Guinness, some of her items appearing in fashion videos like Sand People:
Website: www.unaburke.com
by Alexandra Ivașcu
Alexandra Ivașcu is a fashion designer living and working in Cluj. She is pursuing her PhD at the University of Arts and Design, Cluj, studying the representation of the couple in contemporary art
For more information visit http://ivascualexandra.com/
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