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# Project Description THE ITCH SILVA COCO Summary Final work Silva Coco is a London-based artist, designer, and creative director whose work spans fashion artefact, publishing, video, and event-based practice. She is the founder and editor of Plates of Meat magazine, an independent publication operating across print, film, and live formats to document and provoke contemporary youth culture. Alongside editorial and video work, her practice includes an ongoing material investigation into footwear and bodily artefacts, using processes such as casting, mark-making, and complex construction to explore repair, identity, and ontological instability. This research-led approach sits in tension with commercial and collaborative projects, allowing experimental making to inform applied design contexts without collapse into spectacle. Silva Coco is a London-based artist, designer, and creative director whose work spans fashion art... College London College of Fashion Course MA Fashion Artefact Graduation year 2025 THE ITCH is a fashion artefact project exploring ontological instability and recursive identity through bodily-adjacent objects. Working primarily through footwear and hybrid forms, the project uses self-casting, graphite mark-making, and repetitive surface abrasion to examine narcissism, compulsion, and creative survival. Graphite operates as both drawing and residue, binding body, object, and gesture into artefacts that resist resolution and continually refer back to their own making. Final work THE ITCH Silva Coco works alongside long-time collaborator Mimiko McVeigh to use the footwear artefacts as tools for mark-making, pressing, dragging, and abrading calico to generate new surface patterns. These material traces, produced through movement, weight, and repetition-are then passed to Edie Ashley , who translates the marks into garments, extending the artefacts’ logic from object to surface to clothing. Share this project THE ITCH is a fashion artefact project exploring ontological instability and recursive identity through bodily-adjacent objects. Working primarily through footwear and hybrid forms, the project uses self-casting, graphite mark-making, and repetitive surface abrasion to e... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Aesthetics Being Human Body Community Craft & Process Futures Materiality Play 3dDesign Artefact Autobiographical Collaboration Collage Footwear GraphicDesign Materials Technology Wood
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