Paulina Rozenberg

BFA Fashion Design Collections

Updated: July 27th

Sponsored by: The Woolmark Company

Fantaziya Zhittya (The Fantasy of Life) tells narratives of nostalgia, and addresses the conundrum that children of immigrants face because of their multiple cultural identities. I am the child of Ukrainian-Jewish refugees, and I have manifested my story by using transparency as a metaphor for the veil of time, wool felted organic forms to evoke innate biology, and distorted shapes that reflect a distorted reality —striving to transport the wearer to a new world within their skin.

I focus on the human body because I am obsessed with its perfection in every shape. From our guts to our skin, to the decorations we don, there is an incredible allure in our self-expression; I live to engage with it by pencil, ink, needle, and thread. I create to explore humans as artifacts of ultimate beauty, to see joy in comfort, and to satisfy aesthetic impulses. My style is oxymoronic, I like to call it "intricate minimalism," where details sing in a quiet space around them. Contrast is key and color is life in my work.