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interview with my mom and best friend.
we mainly talked about why i have this urge to collect, where it comes from and for how long it takes place

Fleur, Theory
the obsession for collecting

interview with my roommates with found footage from london around the begining of the 70s.
we mainly talked about what i want to achieve in the fashion domain.

Self interview from the book
"interpreting objects and collections"
The questions are there to give an insight on the materials you really bound with and have a connection with and why?
almost everyone who did the test had the most connection with objects they got from loved ones and wich they had a certain memory from.

Famous "characters" who all had a big influence on my life

i wear these cute dresses to compansate my rough side, people tend to see me in a different way when i don't wear them. My personality can be a bit difficult sometimes, i have a strong voice with a strong opinion and wearing these cute dresses compansates the way that i am.
i can dress up everyday in a different way. each day is a different character for me. Am i the sweet colorfull girl today or do i want to be the rough lead singer of a punk band?

"character"

- when wearing 70s
- on stage
- clothing swap

similarities between the alter ego research and the collection research

It is safe to say that my collection of 70s clothing and objects are a way of presenting myself in to the world. i like to see myself in this way and in no other. Thats why i also did the clothing swap to experience an other way of dressing and if people tend to see me in a different way, if my persona would change.
The fact that i'm always wearing these 70s garments and sticking to this is a way of authentency and feeling save within my own rules and the way i present myself.

The first impression that i give to others is what i find really important.
I like that people see me in a happy and bright way always covered up with the most crazy patterns. When you enter my room for an example it's an overhwelming feeling of nostalgic objects and colors. I've heard a lot of storys that i can sometimes be a difficult character with a strong voice and i like to compensate that with my collection and the way that i dress.

i also find it really important to collect garments as treasures, treasures that tell a story about a certain nostalgic era wich i never excactly will re-live. Trough wearing these garments and collecting them i can make my own story based on someone elses experience with the same objects. I can put the same garments in a different world.

The objects in itself can tell a story troughout a collection and the garments can tell a story to others troughout wearing them. The collection and wearing the gamrnets overlap because they are all from the same nostalgic point of view that i have about them and the meaning that i gave to them. i treat them as equel. I put both objects and collections in to a different world that they came from telling my own new version of a story in a world we are living in right now. Both collecting and wearing them are taking over my life and the way people tend to see me. is the collection my alter ego?

"Making a film character"

"Manual for my own character"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48mrV0VZsWc