Il Girasole

My FMP from university is about the art my grandmother made of Umbria, Italy, an important piece of our heritage. This project is majorly inspired by my grandmother and our Italian heritage. She started learning about it at the age of 40 and didn’t stop until she passed away at the age of 80 in 2023. Even in the later years of her life, my grandmother would tell our family things about our ancestors that she had only just learned that week or that day. In this collection you can see outfits with the wide and loose silhouettes that are inspired by growing up in a prime resurgence of skate culture in Chicago. The prints and shapes of the patterns and garments come from my grandmother's paintings. This blend of things seems random but they are both things that I spend a majority of my life experiencing and seeing and my grandmother experienced the rise in skate culture. Similarly how she shared cultural knowledge with me, I shared knowledge about skate culture and fashion with her.