“I consider my body my home,” says Nitya Anand, from India. After graduating from Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore and collaborating with Converse during her BA, she moved to London to continue her studies in fashion design at Central Saint Martins. Her final collection explores a sense of belonging that – ever since she moved out of her parents’ house at the age of eight – she has only found in her body.
It's a body that she has, over the years, despised and cherished at the same time. Nitya’s collection features exceedingly oversized garments paired with skin-tight bodices. Playing with shapes and sizes, the designer wants to represent the way she has always distorted her figure in order to fit her idea of perfection. “My body is the only thing under my control, it’s the only thing I feel myself belonging to,” she says. Mesh is combined with neoprene to create surrealistic bodies, the outlines of which are traced on the fabric. Tinted in shades of black and bubble gum pink, Nitya’s garments contour the body and conceal it at the same time, creating forms that mock the unattainable ideal figure the designer used to strive for.
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Words: Chiara Margherita Di Bernardini
Images: Silvana Trevale
