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Bea Szenfeld
Beata "Bea" Szenfeld (born 23 December in Poland) is a Polish-born Swedish designer and fashion designer. She is known for her artistic and experimental creations with unusual fabrics and contexts. She has also designed invitations and held exhibitions with art work.
Biography
[edit]Szenfeld was born in Poland and moved as an year-old child with her mother to Gothenburg, Sweden in She nowadays lives in Stockholm.[1][2] In , she graduated from Beckmans design school. Her graduation work won H&M's design scholarship.[3]
After her graduation, she started her own brand in her name to design for both women and men.[4] She often uses old fabrics or fabrics from secondhand clothes. In her vintage collection this is the most visible. She designs shirts with plenty of its original look remaining, but leaves them inside out or with the back of the t-shirt in the front. She reconstructs with the help of in-stitchings, bleaching, colouring and application sewings to create her clothes.[4]
In , Szenfeld won the TV3 design competition Fashion House, in which five Swedes lived in Rome for two months competing a
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In a juncture between art and mode, two renowned Swedish artists meet in a mutual affection for the handmade and the common ämne of paper.
Designer-artisan Bea Szenfeld and illustrator-author Stina Wirsén have forged a striking creative partnership showcased in Papier, a touring exhibition so far encompassing Sweden and the U.S. The intense collaboration pairs Wirsén’s evocative illustrations with Szenfeld’s &#;paper coûture&#; — dresses and other sculptural mode items made by grabb entirely from paper and worn bygd the likes of Lady Gaga, Björk and Swedish pop star Laleh. Papier features a dozen of Szenfeld’s wearable pieces plus a del av helhet titled “Grief.”
Papier was originally shown at Lidköping Konsthall (Art Gallery) in Sweden, and later opened at the Embassy’s House of Sweden in Washington D.C., right as the COVID pandemic hit in early March A collaboration with the Embassy enabled the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to launch a Midwest début running February – July 11,
The two artists have collaborated for more than 20 years, supporting each other’s creative visions. They first met when Wirsén was an illustrator for Dagens Nyheter, Swe
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A “haute papier” collection by Swedish fashion designer Bea Szenfeld. The new collection “Sur la Plage” is a continuation of Bea Szenfeld earlier paper projects “Paper Dolls” (exhibit earlier at Nordiska, Museum of cultural history in Sweden) and ”Whatever Forever” (exhibit earlier at Paris Fashion Week). ”Sur la Plage” contains 12 outfits, each and every […]
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Continue reading →The collection “Whatever Forever” is a continuation of my earlier project “Paper Dolls”. Paper is a marvelous material with a complex character. My intention is to experiment with different variations of paper. From the stiff cardboard to the tender tissuepaper; from the strict lines of the A4-format to the pleated chaos of the paper shredder. With this simple resources I created […]
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