Hi! I’m a foreign student so writing in english is a little hard for me, everytime that I try to make a nice essay it doesn’t come out like I expected… I wanted to know if anyone would be able to help me review and correct grammatical mistakes in my artistic statement and also help me make it shorter! It was supposed to be 500 words and I’ve got more than 1.000! Please help me!
“What do you make, how do you make it, and why do you make? Ultimately, where do you visualize
Your creative abilities and academic study to take you after your education here at Parsons?”
Since I can remember fashion has been my passion, you might be thinking “oh that is what everyone say," but what can I do? It is! With a simple sketch I felt like I could share with the world my ideas, the way that I saw things, simply, my vision. I know, this sounds kind of deep, but it really isn’t, is very simple, it’s just my best communication skill, it relates to who I am! Being able to draw and show people what are my thoughts and represent this to them is really meaningful to me, because it is like if I was transporting them into my head and making they see with my eyes. Since a young age I would do something related to art, that was, and still is what brings me joy! I will never forget the time when I was about 6 and my grandma was teaching me how to sew, she said “you can use any piece of fabric in this table” Oh gosh, how that made me happy, I started picking up pieces of fabrics, cutting them and making little dresses that didn’t made any sense, I putted glue on them, some fake pearls and voilá! There I had it, a masterpiece! But that day in particular something else happened… I saw this beautiful fabric (probably silk), all in white hanging there with all the others retail fabrics, it was marvelous! I didn’t thought twice, after all it was on the table! I sewed, I cut, I think I even did some embroidery with a thread that I found… When I went to show grandma she didn’t seem as happy as I was… Well… In the end I discovered that it was her brand new pillowcase, well it was on the table right…? Wow, that was a big digression over there! Let’s come back to the text… let me see…where was I…? Oh yeah! Drawing!! Oh I love drawing! And I draw what I feel like drawing, I like to learn new techniques but also to have my won unique way you know? Never loosing my personality in my sketches. I enjoy drawing because it is a way to transport my imagination into a simple piece of paper. It is important for others to understand what is passing throughout my head, I don’t truly know why, it just is. Also, when I draw something I can use it like a map for something that I want to make in the future! It is awesome! Another thing that I also enjoying exploring and using during my creative process is painting, I can see the different ways that is possible to create figures and patterns, how colors can change so easily and become a whole new thing. Besides, it is very relaxing. Have you seem how many possibilities we have when painting? We can create whatever you want, where we want and when we want! It is almost like playing god’s role in a screen!
Okay so let me see… I covered what I make, and kind of covered the how too, at least a little bit, so let’s go to the why! How I stated in the start of my text since a long long time a go in a foreign land… I wanted to be a fashion designer, this feeling never changed, I created all kinds of elaborated plans of how my life would be, which university I would go and how I would build my brand. I was kind of obsessive about it, it was the only thing I thought about it, seriously, and when I wasn’t taking about, or drawing, or painting, or sewing well I was making collages… I still do actually, I use collages as a way of expression, I put different things together to create a composition and show not just to others but to myself what I am thinking and what would be the best way to make it, for example: When I imagine clients, buyers or just random people that maybe someday I will meet; I cut figures from magazines guessing what she/he would like, after that I enjoy choosing what kind of clothes they would wear and why. I like putting some collages on binders for when I’m making an outfit, so my binders have all kinds of fabrics and sometimes I write what each one of them is and for what is best used and which one has better quality, you know how it goes….and I also enjoy having tons of clothes figures cut so I can write on the side what each one is better, for instance, what pants are better for what kind of body, etc. I also have collages of clothes that I pretend to make, or inspirations or just because I thought they were pretty. I think it is important to organize myself and the things that I’m going to make, but for me I need things as visual as possible.
I organize myself in a very administrative way, I calculate how much I’m going to spend and in what I’m going to spend. The days that I’m going to need to use and how I’m going to use it and what is the most efficient way to do everything that I need to do. In this way it is easier for me to find myself and less likely to commit mistakes during the processes. I always wanted to make something different, I want to be a designer that revolutionizes the way of wearing clothes, that people desire to buy from. I wish to build a brand that will favor all kinds of bodies, and that will be separated into sections, beautiful clothes that everyone can wear it and feel beautiful, a reflexion of peoples souls, everyone should feel good with themselves. I love fashion, but I like to choose what I dress, so being able to create my own outfits is very useful. Also, when I started learning how to sew I discover various ways of making clothes look better on me, and int this way I can always make everything with high quality fabrics and details. I enjoy being able to create the things that I am going to wear, without having to worry if it will fit, if the fabric is of good quality, if it was well made, and well sewed, etc. This is an outfit made especially for me by me, so it will always be in the way that I want it to be, perfect! So why not make for everyone? Quality clothes that look good in your body? Come on! Everybody deserves that!
So at parsons I wish to study and become an expert of how to make clothes that are different, elegant and with a good fitting, the best prints and cuts that are able to model bodies, I wish to learn how the different bodies fits inside of clothes, and how to make it look better, I want to make a difference in the fashion world, I want to change the standards.
Everyone is beautiful in there on unique way, so why we always follow the same standards and try to make everyone look alike? If people are unique we should make clothes that highlights that, I don’t want my clients to think that the problem is with there bodies, it is not. People aren’t equal, and nor should be there wardrobes, creating clothes that fit different bodies highlighting the beauty in each one of us is my quest, and there clothes will not be equal. I will make everyone look amazing, show the spark that exists in each one of us.
PS: I’m sorry if you were waiting for a nice essay with pretty words, but that’s just not me. I admit that many years in school taught me how to write pretty and all, but this is an artistic statement for an artistic school, and you probably was already tired of reading so many monotonous essays, so I prefer something more natural that reflects a little bit more myself, I basically gave you a free sample of my essence! The rest is with you! 