Rosan Olij

a(uton/nat)omy

Rosan Olij is a critical fashion designer and artist seeking answers to her questions through her designs. She sees fashion as an art form that helps to understand the world around her. Her designs emphasize the underlying invisible systems that drive our society and its participants to move the way they do. By combining artistic and theoretical research as a fundamental pillar of her projects, Rosan weaves interpretations of her own environment into the patterns of the garments.

‘a(uton/nat)omy’ is an artistic research project on the commodification of the human body in the digital age. The fashion collection engages in a conversation between digital and physical realities. By visualizing the absurdity of the fashion industry’s sizing system and its technological ignorance of what it means to have a human body, the collection tries to rethink objects in relation to the body and reclaim autonomy over our own anatomy.