Devika Designs

Concept development | a sense of belonging

The term "belonging" is hard to characterize without a uniform definition. Belonging is seen as a multi-faceted and a dynamic concept. However, various studies have been conducted where intersectionality and fluidity, affective personal and socially negotiated experiences, environment and materials have been identified as consistent factors. Belonging is expressed through various social identities and is characterised by fluidity. If seen via distinctive socio-political roles and personalities (e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, sexuality), an individual is highly unlikely to consider himself as a part of any single one in particular but will look for belonging in ways that cut across a diverse bunch. These categories are socially built, challenged, and always advancing depending on historical, cultural and socio-political setting. This proves how belonging is such a dynamic and an ever-changing concept.

Seeking belonging is a process that is always in flux, especially as the groups people strive to belong to are also continually transforming. In various studies, belonging has been understood as holding an emotional dimension that goes beyond experiencing meaningful bonds with people. It is the feeling of being ‘at home’, a bond that resonates with self, feelings of being part of a larger whole. For people who stay away from home, feelings of nostalgia and affective spaces of home influence their perception of the term belonging and conceptualisation of what home means. Physical space, colour and material objects constitute another vital angle of belonging. Physical spaces are important landscapes of therapeutic restoration and to feel a sense of security.

27/08/2020

Updated my Instagram with previous semester's work
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https://instagram.com/devika_designs?igshid=1hb6tachd6uwc

29/05/2020

Once upon a time I had matching hair with the pair of boots I made

28/05/2020

Logo (´∩｡• ᵕ •｡∩`)

28/05/2020

28/05/2020

|| Thematically coherent || The mane dyed in sapphire, gratifying the casual persona surfing with the formal wear. The titan brilliance accentuating the strength and vigor with a compelling intensity. The euphoric beauty of the mane coupled with the trimmed bindings cast a coltish resonance of a feet readily mounted on the showcase of footlight.

David Bowie project exhibition at National Space Centre, Leicester
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[ Image description: 1. A pair of honey brown colour leather ankle boot is situated on top of a podium. The boot has blue hair attached at the edges flowing down till the sole, it is secured with magenta leather bindings. On the podium is a name tag of the designer
2, 3, 4. The designer is standing next to the podium. The images are in sequence of her looking at the camera to her looking down at her designed boots, then back to the camera again]

@ National Space Centre

28/05/2020

|| Thematically coherent || The mane dyed in sapphire, gratifying the casual persona surfing with the formal wear. The titan brilliance accentuating the strength and vigor with a compelling intensity. The euphoric beauty of the mane coupled with the trimmed bindings cast a coltish resonance of a feet readily mounted on the showcase of footlight. [ Image description: female model wearing a bold eye makeup is balancing a leather ankle boot on top of her hand. The boot is honey brown in colour, synthetic blue hair attached to the edges flowing down till the sole of the boot covers most of the body of the boot. It has magenta leather bindings around the synthetic hair secured with silver trims.]

28/05/2020

|| Thematically coherent || The mane dyed in sapphire, gratifying the casual persona surfing with the formal wear. The titan brilliance accentuating the strength and vigor with a compelling intensity. The euphoric beauty of the mane coupled with the trimmed bindings cast a coltish resonance of a feet readily mounted on the showcase of footlight. . [ Image description: female model wearing a bold eye makeup is balancing a leather ankle boot on top of her head. Her arms are above her head around the boot in a secured position. The boot is honey brown in colour, synthetic blue hair attached to the edges flowing down till the sole of the boot covers most of the body of the boot. It has magenta leather bindings around the synthetic hair secured with silver trims.]

28/05/2020

25/03/2020

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Design collection- LEATHER FOOTWEAR AND GOODS
Just as cracks help in decoding the mysteries of the crevices, these designs help working on the view points of the minor details of life with the CRACKS.

It represents the BEAUTIFUL CHAOTIC SOLID who's obliquity is a witness to its material versatility, limited only by our incomplete understanding of its material nature.
|| EXPRESSIONS OF THE NATURE ||

15/03/2020

Ladies T-Bar shoe

15/03/2020

Leather cross body from my undergraduate degree

15/03/2020

First leather Oxford shoe I made during my undergraduate degree

@ National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai

10/03/2020

As young people, we have so many things in our favour and so many against us at the same time, and we end up not knowing what to do with the gift of youth- like the famous quote often attributed to George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde: "Youth is wasted on the young".
Youth might be the most beautiful moment in life, yet it's also full of contradictions.

@ De Montfort University Leicester (DMU)