Rachel Freire is a trans-diciplinery artist, designer and researcher working across clothing, costume and wearable technology. They are self taught in pattern cutting and trained in Design for Performance at Central St. Martins. Inhabiting the spaces where disciplines meet, their works focuses on intricate, evocative detailing, narrative garments and exploring the relationship between futuristic applications and traditional techniques. They accidentally launched a conceptual fashion label in 2009 to explore the idea of clothing as armour, embarking on a self taught fashion degree live on the catwalks of London Fashion Week.
Rachel Freire Studio focuses on value attribution and how to make sustainability inherent in future design logic, contributing to the roadmap of boutique production and scalability for wearables: integrating technology, craftsmanship and experimental techniques with high-end garment manufacture processes.
Focusing on the essential role of collaboration between the arts and sciences in constructing more sustainable, equitable and aesthetically pleasing futures, Rachel believes knowledge should be free. And that if we want better futures, we must tell better stories and nurture the skills to create them.
current status 2024 IRL + SenSInt at Max Planck + free range antics… ☽◯☾
2023 IRL + guest researcher with Sensorimotor Interaction Group [SenSInt] at Max Planck Institute for Informatics [MPI-INF]
2022 Secret Scifi Budapest adventures [edit: Dune part 2!] + relocating to Santiago De Compostela with Intangible Realities Laboratory [IRL]
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