I’m a designer researching relationships that we have with products but also,
relationships that those products enable or disable us to have; this includes emotional durability, value systems and consumption patterns. I want to understand what makes us feel fulfilled and map possibilities for more
satisfying futures. I look at how environments, people, feelings,
objects and materials come together through stories. My main focus is on what we wear.
I engage with speculative, critical design. Still, as much as I see myself as a ‘futurist’, I’m also a ‘presentis’
putting a conscious effort to stay with the trouble and appreciate the world as
it appears to me now.
Feel free to get in touch at aniela.fw@yahoo.com.



Garment Study //
Every garment has a story and I’m on board with the idea that every story you wear becomes your own, whether consciously or not. I documented my stream of consciousness from 50 days of self-isolation during covid-19 pandemic and made it into textile. Fashion is a political tool and an important part of human validation. Identity, belief, and aspirations can all be expressed through clothing. It’s ugly, pretty, funny, silly, sad and happy in the same time. It is an attempt to employ my everyday emotional labour towards validating my thoughts by crafting them into a piece of emotional couture.
2020





Diamonds are Whatever
| MA Fashion Futures
Link to dedicated website ︎︎︎
'Diamond
Makers' is a hybrid between a lab and a tailor-made retail experience. It
exploits possibility coming from already existing science, which enables
fabricating lab-grown diamonds from a wide selection of surprising sources.
Focus on origin allows the customer to choose the meaning and emotional significance that they want their
diamond to have. Source is fully customisable and the selection process is
designed to trigger personal reflection on values and following them desires.
Lab-grown diamonds grow under high temperature and pressure. They are formed
from carbon which can be isolated from most of types of organic ash.
But maybe
diamond is in fact ‘whatever’ or at least less significant than the meaning
emerging from the source? What would be the value of the diamond made from the
signature of the 'Diamonds' queen Rihanna vs diamond made from Notre Dame ash
or your childhood teddy? What would those diamonds represent?
2020


1st
Award
The Kering Awards
for Sustainable Fashion
Kering - Alexander McQueen x Centre for
Sustainable Fashion
India is among the top 5 largest e-waste
generators worldwide while only 5% of it is documented to be recycled. Project
proposed that by connecting India’s first government authorised e-waste miner
with the local craft community, Alexander McQueen brand could provide an
opportunity for artisans to highlight and fight electronic waste issue with
their own heritage and skills.
Pictured salamander is a prototype crafted entirely from discarted copper cables.
Made in collaboration with Hand & Lock
Read more here
2018BIO
I completed MA Fashion Futures ‘20 at the London College of Fashion, UAL, where I was awarded a distinction.
Currently, I’m assisting Knowledge Exchange Team at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (UAL).
Currently, I’m assisting Knowledge Exchange Team at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (UAL).
‘The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right’
- Donatella Meadows
Features:
Dutch Design Week x Deezen | Oct 2020
Interview ’The New Intimacy - Stories of a Product’
Dutch Design Week #DDW20 | Oct 2020
Diamond Makers Lab included in Connected Living virtual tour
FutureLaboratory | Oct 2020
Luxury Hospitality Report 2020
ViewPoint Colour N. 8 | Sep 2020
Image
Radical Sustainabilities | Aug 2020
Guest Speaker: LCF x Fashion Roundtable
Dezeen | Jun 2020
Article: Aniela Fidler envisions shop where sentimental objects are transformed into diamonds
Gdynia Design Days | Jun 2019
Guest Speaker: The sustainable innovation
Hand & Lock | Feb 2019
Interview
MODUAL | Aug 2019
Workshop Pod leader:
UAL x The Glasgow School of Art x Sommerset House
VOGUE PL | Dec 2018
Dla zrównoważonej mody nie ma już alternatywy
ELLE UK | Sep 2018
The Faces Of Fashion's Sustainable Future
Dutch Design Week x Deezen | Oct 2020
Interview ’The New Intimacy - Stories of a Product’
Dutch Design Week #DDW20 | Oct 2020
Diamond Makers Lab included in Connected Living virtual tour
FutureLaboratory | Oct 2020
Luxury Hospitality Report 2020
ViewPoint Colour N. 8 | Sep 2020
Image
Radical Sustainabilities | Aug 2020
Guest Speaker: LCF x Fashion Roundtable
Dezeen | Jun 2020
Article: Aniela Fidler envisions shop where sentimental objects are transformed into diamonds
Gdynia Design Days | Jun 2019
Guest Speaker: The sustainable innovation
Hand & Lock | Feb 2019
Interview
MODUAL | Aug 2019
Workshop Pod leader:
UAL x The Glasgow School of Art x Sommerset House
VOGUE PL | Dec 2018
Dla zrównoważonej mody nie ma już alternatywy
ELLE UK | Sep 2018
The Faces Of Fashion's Sustainable Future
Awards:
1st Award | Dec 2018
Kering Awards for Sustainable Fashion x CSF
1st Award | Dec 2018
Kering Awards for Sustainable Fashion x CSF