Otto Siponen

"The garments are containers. They seek to be opened, and their contentsunveiled." In their BA graduate collection, Otto Siponen investigates the structural and visualelements of packaging – its closures, seals, and surfaces – and imagines it as a systemfor garment construction. Over the course of their final year Siponen focused on studying methods of enclosingthe body, borrowing from industrial manufacturing processes. Using methods such asultrasonic sewing – a technique used in packaging production – Siponen visualizes thefinalized garments not just as clothing, but as vessels for preservation, depicting thebody as a manufactured good. "I’m not that interested in expressing something deep or authentic. I’m moredrawn to things that feel empty." Siponen’s creative processes are often driven by surface-level desire and fastpleasures: "Design is always a process in which I observe things from the outside, without adeeper personal connection to them. There’s a distance I maintain, but withinthat space, I find freedom. It allows me to construct new meanings from banalthings" OTTO SIPONENotto.siponen@aalto.fi0440877774@fagercrombieandbitch