Dupes

– The garments are containers. They seek to be opened, and their contents
unveiled.

In their BA graduate collection, Otto Siponen investigates the structural and visual
elements of packaging – its closures, seals, and surfaces – and imagines it as a system
for garment construction.

Over the course of their final year Siponen focused on studying methods of enclosing
the body, borrowing from industrial manufacturing processes. Using methods such as
ultrasonic sewing – a technique used in packaging production – Siponen visualizes the
finalized garments not just as clothing, but as vessels for preservation, depicting the
body as a manufactured good.

– I’m not that interested in expressing something deep or authentic. I’m more
drawn to things that feel empty.

Siponen’s creative processes are often driven by surface-level desire and fast
pleasures:

– Design is always a process in which I observe things from the outside, without a
deeper personal connection to them. There’s a distance I maintain, but within
that space, I find freedom. It allows me to construct new meanings from banal
things

OTTO SIPONEN
otto.siponen@aalto.fi
0440877774
@fagercrombieandbitch