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Design process Interview

Purpose /// Building your designer narrative — elevating you from student to emerging talent.

LIGNES DE FUITE will produce an 800–1200 word designer profile for each participant. Please complete this form promptly and carefully — your responses inform how your practice is presented publicly, and your first impression as an emerging designer matters.

Visual material is equally important. Submit selective, high-quality process documentation and a clear recent selfie. These elements help us accurately represent your work, your methods, and your presence as a developing creative voice.

  • Where did you grow up, and what do you feel shaped you the most about that environment?

  • What were the personalities, rituals, or cultural codes around you growing up?

  • Was there someone in your family or childhood who influenced the way you see aesthetics, identity, or performance?

  • What was your relationship to clothing, appearance, or self-expression as a child or teenager?

  • Was there a moment when fashion first became meaningful for you?

  • Did you ever reject fashion before coming back to it? Why?

  • What were the first things you made, altered, or experimented with?

  • Which parts of your identity (cultural, gender, emotional, social) directly or indirectly inform your work?

  • Is there a tension you feel you're always negotiating (fitting in vs. standing out, tradition vs. rebellion, etc.)? How does it appear in your work?

  • What kinds of characters, archetypes, or muses do you instinctively return to?

  • How would you describe your design voice today — emotionally, not technically?

  • What do you think you're actually trying to do or say through your designs?

  • Are there recurring motifs, shapes, humour, colours, or exaggerations that keep returning?

  • If your work were a film or a genre, what would it be?

  • How has your education shaped your practice — through structure or through resistance to structure?

  • Can you recall a moment where your thinking about fashion completely shifted?

  • What kinds of environments push you forward — competitive, collaborative, chaotic, introspective?

  • Where do you usually begin: a narrative, a material, a silhouette, a memory, a feeling?

  • What does your research process look like (images, films, objects, people, archives)?

  • What does experimentation mean in your practice?

  • How do you know when an idea feels truly “yours”?

  • What role does storytelling play in your work?

  • Do you imagine scenes, characters, or situations when you design?

  • How important are humour, irony, drama, or theatricality to you?

  • Which artists, designers, films, or cultural figures have shaped your perspective?

  • What non-fashion influences drive you (food, sports, diaspora, subcultures, childhood memories, internet culture, etc.)?

  • What is the origin story of your current project or collection?

  • What memory, feeling, or provocation started it?

  • What are you exploring materially, aesthetically, and conceptually this time around?

  • What are you learning about yourself through this project?

  • What do you hope people feel when they encounter your work?

  • What do you believe makes your practice distinct among emerging designers?

  • Where do you feel your work is heading — in depth, scale, or direction?

  • What do you feel you still need to unlearn or embrace?

  • What excites you creatively, and what scares you?

LIGNES DE FUITE will produce an 800–1200 word designer profile for each participant. Please complete this form promptly and carefully — your responses inform how your practice is presented publicly, and your first impression as an emerging designer matters.

Visual material is equally important. Submit selective, high-quality process documentation and a clear recent selfie. These elements help us accurately represent your work, your methods, and your presence as a developing creative voice.

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