Hear colours. See sound. Taste touch.

Nothing like a rainy Monday to make you jump out of bed and embrace the week ahead! Lol.

To help get those creative juices flowing, I thought you’d enjoy the concept behind Nadja Penfold‘s collection:

Kingston BA graduate Nadja Penfold’s final collection is inspired by the neurological condition ‘Synaesthesia’, a rare condition in which sensory neurons responsible for converting information from external stimuli to internal stimuli becomes disordered. Hearing colours, seeing sounds and tasting touch.

“Using touch as a central theme I have explored the blurring of boundaries between conventional cognitive processes and senses becoming overlapped in a way only experienced by Synesthetes.”

Sight is a key sense to the aesthetic design. Nadja produces work that stimulates the senses used in the absence of sight by incorporating Braille into the silhouettes. The collection consists of hand woven jacquard that in Braille reads “Hear colours. See sound. Taste touch.”

Nadja’s collection was shortlisted for the best womenswear collection at Graduate Fashion Week.