Womankind – August 2019

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Aimless ways

How do you divide up your work

day? For Violise Lunn, a fashion de-

signer from Copenhagen, she divides

her day between working on the ‘us-

able’ and the ‘useless’. Lunn designs

and makes couture bridal and eve-

ning wear for women, using fabric

sourced from travelling around the

world. But her second love - the

‘useless’, gives her the freedom to

create without any boundaries at all,

a time where she plays and experi-

ments with making dresses, shoes,

flowers, chairs, bowls, and plates,

which are all utterly impractical and

pointless, because they’re made from

paper. The lightness and fragility of

paper gives Lunn a new medium to

explore, but it also, more important-

ly, gives her a sense of play - working

for pure creativity rather than for

some more serious business-related

goal. No doubt, Lunn’s discoveries

with paper are reflected back in her

couture work - proving that it’s often

these more ‘useless’ moments in life

that can be the most fruitful.

Artist Danish fashion designer Violise Lunn finds purpose and

meaning in aimless creativity.

Art

VIOLISE LUNN

33 AIMLESS WAYS

Aimless ways

How do you divide up your work
day? For Violise Lunn, a fashion de-
signer from Copenhagen, she divides
her day between working on the ‘us-
able’ and the ‘useless’. Lunn designs
and makes couture bridal and eve-
ning wear for women, using fabric
sourced from travelling around the
world. But her second love - the

‘useless’, gives her the freedom to

create without any boundaries at all,

a time where she plays and experi-

ments with making dresses, shoes,

flowers, chairs, bowls, and plates,

which are all utterly impractical and

pointless, because they’re made from

paper. The lightness and fragility of

paper gives Lunn a new medium to

explore, but it also, more important-

ly, gives her a sense of play - working

for pure creativity rather than for

some more serious business-related

goal. No doubt, Lunn’s discoveries

with paper are reflected back in her

couture work - proving that it’s often

these more ‘useless’ moments in life

that can be the most fruitful.

Artist Danish fashion designer Violise Lunn finds purpose and

meaning in aimless creativity.

Art
VIOLISE LUNN

AIMLESS WAYS