Profile: Beatrice Ciocca – Real Leather Design Competitions

Beatrice Ciocca

Accademia Costume & Moda

Fashion Design BFA

Accessories, Bags, Handbags

Hi! My name is Beatrice Ciocca, i am Italian, I am 22 years old and have just graduated at Accademia Costume & Moda in Rome. I am a very curious girl and have many different interests and hobbies including cooking, sports, cinema, theater and volunteering.. but also medicine and law.. reason why choosing what to do after high school for me, it wasn’t easy at all. This is the reason why I choosed Accademia, because it gave me the opportunity to compare myself with different subjects, such as costume, fashion, textile and accessories design .. and in the end I fell in love with leather and accessories in general. I fell in love with them for their "concreteness", and for the design process itself, almost as if you were sculptors of objects that should be both beautiful and functional when worn, but also beautiful when placed on a table, or on the floor in the house.. almost like objects of interior design, like sculptures. So.. yes, i am not the typical student who says"working in fashion has always been my dream"... because it has always been one of my thousand dreams. And I am proud of this, because I believe that my thousand interests lead me to have so much material from which to draw inspiration and research. In fact, one of the things that amuses me the most in this work is to be able to immerse myself every time with each project in a world of totally different inspirations, and then translate it in my own way.

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PLA , printing life again

Category: Accessories

Competitions: International

« In a world with limited resources we should use what we have and use it well” - Stephen Sothmann This is where I started, wondering if there were other sustainable resources already available to us, reusable in the production of fashion accessories, along with leather. And I found the answer in corn starch, PLA. PLA is the most widely used type of filament in the market for extrusion 3D printing, and it is also an extremely sustainable material, not only for its organic nature, but also for its use. This project has the ambitious objective of promoting the use of 3D printing in style offices as a practice that can make the creative/production process more sustainable. And proposing a way of giving a second life on the finished product to the print waste and the prototypes previously produced. 3D printing is a sustainable technique because it allows a lower consumption of materials in the prototyping phase, and a consequent lower impact on the environment by reducing CO2 emissions due to transport between suppliers and offices. Allowing the designer to evaluate new concepts for buckles, closures, heels, rivets, etc. The moodboard stems from the search for visual similarities between what surrounds me and the pattern of the recycled surface. Finding correspondences in the colors and shapes of everyday objects and in the street, coming to design a bag intentionally characterized by a simple model that has the function of exposing this new material. A very simple construction, which in its simplicity also shows that to have a sustainable approach to design it isn’t necessary to think in a complicated way. Few seams, few materials, simple to build = simple to disassemble = sustainable design, easy, isn’t it?