Felicia Halén Fredell – Born of Decay

"The reason for making this collection was my ambivalent feelings towards fashion. My guilt and freedom, my empty words and most vigorous formulations, my joy and misery. All that fashion has become to me during my years at Beckmans. Everything that gets in fashion’s way becomes a victim of its inconsistent nature. This project is a study of my own and others contradictions. Why do we, like martyrs, dress in fashions that deliberately hinder bodily functions and emphasizes impracticality but simultaneously seems to be liberating. Why do we expose ourselves to fashion’s transitory and unforgiving character and seek to come to terms with it?"