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DECRYPTED GARMENTS


Since I got my first computer at the age of eleven, I quickly found myself immersed in virtual chat rooms such as Habia World or Habbo. I loved to dress my virtual avatar in the pixelated dresses and I'd dream to own them in reality. 
Decrypted Garments is a collection of 8 looks that are created by 3d scanning and digitally manipulating my own wardrobe during the time of pandemic in the beginning of 2020. I explored my own digital identity and speculated how could we communicate digital garments in the future. 
In the digital space there's no need for the wearer of the clothes, they can 'wear' themselves. 



Featured by Dezeen
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/09/13/santa-kupca-decrypted-garments-digital-fashion-design/


Featured on print Assouline Metaverse Dream 2022
https://www.assouline.com/products/metaverse-dream

Featured by NXS World  #6: Phygital Fashioning  2022
https://san-serriffe.com/product/nxs-6-phygital-fashioning/


Featured by PAGE magazine
Print publication December 2021

Salone del Mobile 'Missed Your Call' DAE exhibition 'Missed Your Call' 5-10 September 2021, Milan

Featured by VPRO:
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/mondo/artikelen/specials/tien-graduates-ddw-2020.html


Featured by Design Academy Eindhoven Graduashion Show:
https://designacademy.nl/p/study-at-dae/graduation-show/graduation-projects/santa-kupca


Featured by Design Academy Eindhoven Graduashion Show:
Project Catalogue Graduation Show 2020 Design Academy Eindhoven
Publisher Design Academy Eindhoven

Graduation project Design Academy Eindhoven
Identity department
2020 
Sound: Misha Douglas MacLaren & Yasha Mostert








                                      

         



   Process video:



















 My Habia World avatar in the red dress with black flowers in 2010.

First sketches. My wardrobe drawn in pixels.

santa(at)santakupca(dot)com


3d & spatial designer

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Education





Design Academy Eindhoven
BA, Identity department
Eindhoven, Netherlands
09/2016 - 09/2020            Riga School of Design and Art
Interior Design Specialist
Riga, Latvia
09/2012 - 07/2016






Publications


Assouline Metaverse Dream 2022
https://eu.assouline.com/products/metaverse-dream?variant=39954821644387


NXS World  #6: Phygital Fashioning  2022

https://nxsworld.bigcartel.com/

Dezeen 2021

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/09/13/santa-kupca-decrypted-garments-digital-fashion-design/



Salone del Mobile 'Missed Your Call' 2021

DAE exhibition 'Missed Your Call' 5-10 September 2021, Milan Dezeen
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/11/27/santa-kupca-duvet-dresses-lockdown-coronavirus-pandemic/


The Art Newspaper 2021
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/mapping-a-digital-deluge
 


The Art Newspaper LTD. Est. 1983, Vol. XXX,
Number 331, February 2021

Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/90581906/the-ultimate-fashion-statement-of-2020-a-dress-that-doubles-as-a-comforter
 
ICON
https://www.iconeye.com/design/duvet-dresses-diy-hempcrete-best-graduate-projects-design-academy-eindhoven


Plain Magazine
https://plainmagazine.com/santa-kupca-stuck-at-home-masquerade/


Label Magazine
https://label-magazine.com/en/lifestyle/articles/stylowy-stroj-na-zoom



Featured by PAGE magazine
Print publication December 2021


VPRO
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/mondo/artikelen/specials/tien-graduates-ddw-2020.html


Dutch Design Week
https://ddw.nl/en/programme/4756/decrypted-garments



Design Academy Eindhoven

 Project Catalogue Graduation Show 2020 Design Academy Eindhoven 
Publisher Design Academy Eindhoven 331, February 2021
Project ‘Decrypted Garments’
https://designacademy.nl/p/study-at-dae/graduation-show/graduation-projects/santa-kupca

Design in Quarantine
https://designinquarantine.com/421-Santa-Kupca-lockdown-duvet-style-dresses


Arts Thread
https://www.artsthread.com/news/design-academy-eindhoven-2020-ba-identity/


Woth
https://www.woth.co/graduates/

Trend Agency Move

Publication Trend Movement AW 22/23
Project ‘Decrypted Garments’



©Santa Kupča 2020