I am an apparel designer and material researcher interested in redefining what garments can be on a conceptual, functional, and sustainable level.
This inquiry honors a fundamental love for clothes–how they give physical form to the abstract concepts of personal identity, culture, and collective societal philosophies–while asking how they can mediate a deeper connection to our bodies and environment and confronting the devastating environmental and social effects of the apparel industry.
I am currently a Functional Apparel Design Fellow at the Harvard Biodesign Lab. I graduated from the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program in 2022, studying material engineering at Brown University and apparel design at RISD. I have interned for the NASA Johnson Space Center, proposing garments for use on the International Space Station and the Artemis Missions, award-winning Austrian designer Julia Koerner, assisting in the design and development of garments that utilize 3D printing, and at the NASA Ames Research Center, where I worked on the development of Martian and Lunar habitats from mycelium, the vegetative structure of a fungus, and presented our findings at the 2018 Nasa Advanced and Innovative Concepts (NAIC) symposium.
Contact: emiliakmann@gmail.com
I: @ekmann.studio
This inquiry honors a fundamental love for clothes–how they give physical form to the abstract concepts of personal identity, culture, and collective societal philosophies–while asking how they can mediate a deeper connection to our bodies and environment and confronting the devastating environmental and social effects of the apparel industry.
I am currently a Functional Apparel Design Fellow at the Harvard Biodesign Lab. I graduated from the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program in 2022, studying material engineering at Brown University and apparel design at RISD. I have interned for the NASA Johnson Space Center, proposing garments for use on the International Space Station and the Artemis Missions, award-winning Austrian designer Julia Koerner, assisting in the design and development of garments that utilize 3D printing, and at the NASA Ames Research Center, where I worked on the development of Martian and Lunar habitats from mycelium, the vegetative structure of a fungus, and presented our findings at the 2018 Nasa Advanced and Innovative Concepts (NAIC) symposium.
Contact: emiliakmann@gmail.com
I: @ekmann.studio