SheIsMirjam: My portfolio

This in my portfolio, because of this I got to university.

I`m not entirely satisfied with all the work, but I think that is just how I am, never satisfied.

What do you like?

INSPIRATION

I love to read different quotes of life and emotions. They really speak to me.

Cutting magazines and gluing images are my favorite things to do.

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SAY NO TO NEW DRESS

Last summer I decided to make all my summer dresses and not to buy any new ones.

It was really hard but in the end I got dresses that I really liked.

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SELF-PORTRAIT

I always take my own self-portraits.

I like to try different things and settings with my camera, that is how I learn to use my camera.

I also like to edit pictures, I don´t have any fancy image editing softwares. I use powerpoint and picasa. My own way. I think i would get so much more with photoshop etc.

But right now this is the way I do it.

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SKETCHING?

I´m actually really bad at sketching and I would like to learn own style to sketch. Like people can tell that it is my sketch. That is my goal!

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SUMMER GIRL

"All I want for winter is summer."

This summer dress I made flutters in the warm summer wind. My favorite season is summer. Even in cold winter I just want to wear summer dresses.

I get inspiration from the fabric. When I see fabric that I like, I usually know right away what I´m going to make. I dont design first. That is why I love fabric stores.

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SAFARI

Safari and no I´m not talking about internet safari, I`m talking about these shorts that I made.

It is so weird when is summer, all you want to wear is colors but on winter is just gray and black clothes in the closet. Even though colors on winter would cheer us up!

Lets use more colours!

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PURITY

To me white lace and bare skin is the element of purity.

This is why I didn´t wear anything else than these shorts-skirt I made.

The feeling of these pictures is really calm and pure.

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IN LOVE

"She was in love, but in the end she was just a broken heart looking for love."

This is her story.

These pictures are very sensitive, because the girl is sensitive.

I wanted to create a touchy, innocent and broken feeling in these pictures.

The dress I made, is romantic with a dark twist.

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A FOUR-DAY NEWS

Newspaper.

I made evening gown. This gown is made of our local newspaper, Helsingin sanomat.

My mom is really strict about recycling, so I decided to recycle my parents newspapers and tell a story. I used four daily newspapers. I cut individual news from the papers and glued to the fabric. This has been one of the most difficult "fabrics" I have ever work with.

My mom was the model because she bring credibility to this picture. She is 60-years old and knows and has gone through lot of things.

The atmosphere of the pictures is dramatic and strong.

Today´s newspapers is mostly about bad news around the world. Killing, war, hunger etc. but people only focus on their own lives and dont care others that much anymore, we are too selfish.

. I wanted to bring that to the pictures.

"We walk forward with our evening gowns , pretending that we are blind to what happens elsewhere in the world. It is all about me, myself and I."

That is my message.

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GHOST

"She was the ghost of the basement."

I wanted to make a contrast for the dress and the environment, so I decided to shoot in the dark,narrow basement. It was really scary place, especially beacuse we didn´t have any light there.

But this is the story of beautiful ghost, in the cold and scary basement.

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FLOWER IN THE SNOW

I saw this fabric and knew right away that this is going to be a long dress.

Like a growing flower.

I really like the colors of the pictures.

Even though it was -15 dgrees outside, you can´t see it from the picture, the atmosphere is really warm because of the colors.

These pictures were taken outside of ugly, old factory. This was the only part of the wall that was painted, the bautiful part of the wall. Perfect with the dress!