Joanna Wirazka’s white project, called Eden Airlines has derived from visiting and exploring Danh Vo’s exhibition in London. That experience gave her an impression of being in surrealistic and unknown universe that can be described as afterlife place. The space’s atmosphere provided a sense of safety and blissful serenity which she decided to convey to her design. The concept of shelter is used in many works of her which symbolizes the warmth of her family and Polish heritage.
In order to broaden her starting point she visited car boot sale to gather objects she can experiment with and apart from paradise references she came across old illustrations of airships. She incorporated their immensity and fragility accordingly to create a deflated shape for her garment. In order to obtain it, she made a geometric structure and then draped it through deconstruction.
Following all drape trials with deflated shape, Joanna needed to solve the problem of falling cuboid’s corners. Thus, she used thin lines attached to one point of the garment which bolstered structure’s edges and created an intricate net that was used in airships to strengthen their construction.
In order to polish the final outcome, she incorporated accessories that are related to aviation. For the front straps she used real airplane seat belts as embellishment. She also created the hat and aviator goggles to complete the look which are going to be presented within the dress. Eden Airlines is an imaginary universe which is deprived of any pain, gives an ersatz of unknown lightness and to Joanna it represents a journey she is going through within her work’s evolution.
