Clarissa Poli

Master’s Degree at the Design Faculty of Design for the Fashion System, Politecnico di Milano.
She makes moodboards, animated gifs, drawings and textile paintings on fabric, paper and other special supports. She draws fashion sketches and technicians by hand and CAD. She creates textile prints, re-elaborate images using the graphic tablet. She’s hardworking, talented and creative.
She did an international exchange in M. Sc. in Fashion Design Management Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), Philadelphia, USA.
She makes voluntary activities in Tara Kadampa Meditation Centre in Derbyshire, Gran Bretagna.
She likes to meet people from all over the world and work in teams.

The thesis “Low Tech and High Tech” analyses topics of a historical nature, customs, jewellery, fashion, traditional crafts and contemporary technologies.
The two themes that led to the creation of the thesis are textile jewellery and technologies, in particular, 3D printing.
Both themes start from personal interests: from creating original handmade workings on one side and from the passion for CAD programs to 2D digital processing and 3D modelling.
My background consists mainly of knowledge of textiles, having studied in the design field for the fabric at the Como “Setificio” school, and perhaps it is from these first experiences that I m now particular interesting for the fabrics, processing and treatments.
I analysed the theme of fabric in jewellery, researching this theme in the past.
My attention focused on the ruffs which consisted of fascinating folds and starched laces.
It was, therefore, a fabric that became rigid and it took not just a new form, but a new meaning: it was not a question of covering the body but of enhancing it, not dressing it but decorating it.
The aim is the creation of a capsule collection partly in semi-rigid fabric made three-dimensional by folds and by hand-made seams and partly obtained from a 3D printer with a rigid material that could not be moulded by hand.
The project aims to rediscover human values, excellence and the uniqueness of handmade, giving the machine the possibility to simulate the elaborate but using different materials and processes to obtain a unique jewel, that it is not possible to make either only by machine or even by hand.