Awarded
Claudia Caviezel
Textiles collections for fashion and interior 2003 – 2007
Textile Design
Awarded
Textiles collections for fashion and interior 2003 – 2007
Textile Design
Printed, embroidered, glued and pleated
Claudia Caviezel's textiles convey a sense of relish. Each individual item is full of surprises: here she has pinned black coco beads to the fabric, there she has let different patterns run into each other and then she stretches a narrow, long, folded ribbon out to form a large area if its ends are pulled. Claudia Caviezel is presenting a series of designs, consisting of colour photography, embroidery and fabric printing at different stages of development that could form the basis of a textile collection for fashion or interior use. The fabrics used extend from chiffon via cotton to metal fabric, which she prints, embroiders, glues and pleats. She shows that she is mistress of more than one technology, and is not a slave to any particular style. She mixes craft techniques with industrial processes and cultivates a personal style amidst all this abundance. She has used tape to put some of the pieces together in a way that suggests clothes. The jury was impressed by the designs submitted, which show how Claudia Caviezel has developed since her diploma. In 2003 she was awarded the Swiss Federal Design Grant for the work called 'Tape-it' she submitted for her final examinations at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern. She experimented with glued seams and design in the examination piece, replacing the traditional thread with adhesive tape. This produced an inspiring collection of sketches, clothes, fabrics and accessories – also at various stages of development. When starting on the current collection, Claudia Caviezel had been working for another four years, developing textiles that go well beyond the idea of fashion. She experiments with combining fabrics, materials and processes that are unfamiliar in this form, and the jury received them enthusiastically.
Ariana Pradal
Claudia Caviezel
Born in
1977
Education
Textildesignerin FH, MA in Design (European Design Labs, Madrid)