‘The Room of Misunderstood Creatures’ by fashion designer Roos Soetekouw is an installation featuring three sweet but troubled illustrated creatures. The room has a pitch-black ceiling that cries dark tears down the crisp white walls and is decorated with hand-drawn, oddly proportioned furniture.
Fashion could never flourish without the unbridled imagination of its creators, but these fantasy worlds can also reveal a darker side. Soetekouw uses fashion illustration to express these subconscious wonderlands. In ‘The Room of Misunderstood Creatures’, colourful, shiny sequins are everywhere, adding a magical sparkle to the white lacquered floor and gloomy, black tears. The complexity of the Misunderstood Creatures is perfectly reflected in the specially designed fabric covering the windows and furniture: a triple-layer knit with a dark skin, a core of black loop yarns and a sheer, shimmering nylon surface.
