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DIANA YOUNES

Diana Younes is a designer born raised in Barcelona, her parents are Arabs so she has a mixture of cultures, the western and the Syrian. She has always been attracted to fashion design, drawing in notebooks and watching runways, she has felt inspired and thanks to that she decides in 2016 to study design in BAU, a well known design university.

Her culture is important to her and it is a key factor that her clothes include a bit of her essence. She is not interested in sticking to trends, but in creating something different, that has a concept behind it, even feelings. Experimenting with textures, materials and techniques, is how she learns and evolves as a designer and person, she is not afraid to take risks and see what happens.

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PORTFOLIO OF WORK

CÉFIRO

Collaboration with Stradivarius.
Inspired by the romantic paintings and the sensation that the wind causes, a collection of 10 looks has been created with fresh, vibrant summer fabrics that provide movement. Fittings, such as rubber bands, ribbons and buttons have been added so that the garment is held when there is a strong wind and volumes are created.
The bored fabric reminds us of the destructive and eroding face of the wind.

DYM PRIVÉE

A collection of 15 pieces has been created by investigating the economic and political situation of the city, as well as the popular clothing of the upper and lower economic classes, and how the world tries to hide the poverty present in the Arab Emirates.

Diana used luxurious fabrics and mixed it with worker's clothing, which is more practical, where as the upper class prefers a more decorative outfit, with gold details and expensive fabrics.

To emphasize the situation of poverty in city, images that show the inequality in Dubai are printed in various pieces of clothing and painted on top with gold paint.

Her name and a phrase in Arabic is also embroidered in gold thread, in every piece.

PERFECT NON PERFECT DRESS

2nd year of university project

It is important to realize that many women are not represented in the world of fashion and that seeing that they feel depressed, carry out diets that

They can negatively affect their health and they may even hate their body because they think it is not pretty and this can lead to serious mental disorders. My goal is to make people put on a garment and feel uncomfortable, that they deform their body, so that I may have the experience of being in a body where you are not comfortable. There are also mental illnesses such as dysmorphobia or also called imaginary ugliness. Then with the garment I want to distort the body usingvolumes in the parts that normally we do not want to accentuate

CONSCIOUS DESIGN

3rd year of University project
Today brands have ads everywhere that make you think that buying Nike or Adidas is better than buying at any store, other people think buying a piece of clothing with a brand is better than purchasing a plain one. Then people who do not have the money to spend on brands look for a cheaper alternative, such as fakes, rip-offs or bootlegs, which usually go unnoticed.
Supreme is known for putting its logo on unusual products and selling them for high prices, like a brick or a fire extinguisher, and people buy them. In each launch there are innumerable people camping in front of stores of the brand, desperate to grab a sweatshirt or a brick with the logo, and if they do not manage to buy any products they go to resellers who have Supreme products but for unusually high prices, possibly three times as high as the original, and people buy them.
Then I began to think about which products would not be acceptable or frowned upon to put a brand, and the religious department would have occurred to me, it is not necessary to wear a logo to the church because they consider fashion as superficial but if logos are put on toothpicks why not also on religious clothing.

MIRROR

3rd year of University project
This project has been based on the idea of the contrasts of fabrics, the stamping and the contrast with the fine, delicate and innocent with the hard and aggressive. Although I have always liked to experiment with materials I had not thought that it would be the main point of the collection, which I enjoyed since I was comfortable but also doing new things.

MEDITATION

2nd year of university project
The main objective of this garment is that it works as a game, that the user relaxes when coloring the dress, that it has a connection with it, not just a garment that is put on and removed without thinking. Produces a feeling of relaxation as it imitates adult coloring books, an anti-stress garment. All of the drawings on the dress are handmade.

TREND KILLERS

2nd year of University project
Objective is to know the limits of the hijab but not only that also put them in doubt. It is important to know what the burka, hijab and nikab are since they are different things, even if people confuse them, and for this work, purely conceptual, it is key to have a little knowledge to be able to understand 100% what you want to transmit. and that is what I propose in this work, to explain and create a tribe that plays with the ideas of the hijab, puts them in doubt and transforms the world.

RECONSTRUCTION

2nd year of university project

This project consists on finding vintage or second hand pieces and redesign them into more modern pieces, so it's also a form of wasting less clothes. In my case I used a vintage sailor inspired dress and made it into a two piece that you can attach with ribbons which imitate the ones sailors use for their boats.

Inspiraron: Jean Paul Gautier and his stripped signature collections.

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