Lola van Praag

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Location

borås / sweden

University

the university of boras, the swedish school of textiles, sweden

Graduation year

2017

Main Manufacturing Countries

The Netherlands

Contact

Lola van Praag (1992) is an up-and-coming fashion designer who's work is print-oriented and deals with questions about gender and contradictions such as the traditional versus the modern. She studied fashion design at the Willem de Koning Academie, from which she graduated in 2014. Her graduation collection Floral Lines, which dealt with the influence of globalization on such a traditional Dutch area as the Flower Bulb Region, was nominated for Lichting 2014 at the Amsterdam Fashion Week.

She learnt about her passion for designing prints during her internship at Ilja Visser. Here she helped develop prints which where used in the spring/summer collection for 2013. Currently she is following a internship at David Laport, where she helped on his collaboration with the Dutch National Ballet at Amsterdam Fashion Week 2015 and works as an design assistent on prints, silhouettes and the research for the upcoming two collections.

At the moment she's following a master in Fashion design and textile design at the the Swedish School of Textile in Boras Sweden.

Latest Collection

IT'S NoT A FLOWER

Flowers have played a predominantly decorative rol in the world of textile. Think of a floral dress or your grandmas curtains. In other fields of art the flower has been used metaphorically to signify different meaning. From the renaissance, where flowers signified the female genitalia to the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, who photographs flowers the same way he photographed his male nudes.

My MA textile collection aims to explore ways in which textile can be used as a medium for expressing narrative and identity. By contrasting contemporary images of naked female bodies with classical paintings, I try to give a unique perspective to the contemporary discussions about female sexuality and its portrayal in modern media.

I choose to use two textile techniques: double bed circle jacquard knitting and heat transfer print. The combination of these two techniques allowed me to play with the fore- and background of the textile and let them overlap. The resulting three dimensional structure exemplifies the printed image by focussing the attention not only on the print, but on the varying surface of the textiles.

Previous collections

Floral Lines