Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Santa Kup?a's Stuck-at-Home Masquerade collection includes three pillowy garments that are designed to be worn during remote video calls in coronavirus isolation.
The collection contains three items of clothing that each represents a different "mundane" aspect of having to stay indoors during lockdown.
These "chapters", as the graduate refers to them, are called Hesitant to RSVP, Dolce Far Niente and Public Library. Each A-line garment boasts a tufted design that closely resembles a duvet.
Santa Kup?a's Stuck-at-Home Masquerade garments are designed to be worn during video calls
"Covid-19 and the lockdown impacted my graduation project dearly," said Kup?a. "Talking on screens and in Zoom conversations became an everyday thing, which often made me confused ? I felt like I was in an in-between place, not entirely at home, not entirely there in the conversation." "I was distracted by wanting to see how I looked on the screen while talking to other people and if my background and the lights around me looked good enough," she added.
"I suddenly felt like I was trying to stage everything around me, which was the starting point of Stuck-at-Home Masquerade."
Each cushiony garment represents a different aspect of the coronavirus lockdown
As the graduate explains, the three pieces are designed to keep their wearer cosy during remote video calls. Each one aims to "romanticise the intima...