Daniela Visser

Born in 1990, on the 11^th of August in Bloemfontein, Daniela found her love for art and design at a young age. Being highly involved in her primary school market days, in Augrabies, she made and sold hairclips with feathers, Barbie handbags made of leather and much, much more. On the art side of things she took part in art classes, learning how to sketch and finding her love for fabric painting. 

Being inspired by fashion trends of the past, this is visible in the shape of the dress' collar, and also in the puffy sleeves. The bold colour sort of gives it a more modern edge with the contrasting white sleeve edges and collar. The bow-tie is a very playful accesory to finish off the look, especially the fact the its striped red. Very bold, almost daring to wear.

 This being at the age of twelve, she also started making clothing and handbags for herself. Unfortunately part of her chosen subjects in high school did not include any creative classes, because the school was agricultural, thus, her having to take part time art classes. In standard 8 she still had her mind set on doing fashion design, but realizing that she loves to make things with her hands, using wire, beading etc, she thought, why not jewellery design. Till today Daniela is studying jewellery by day, and making clothing for herself by night.

Here is a perfect example of a silver doily patterned hair clip that she had chased and domed, her designs are very soft and girly as seen above. In the pin of the clip she set a tear drop rose quartz.

The kinds of designs that she likes are very girly, feminine type designs, including lace, doilies and filigree.  She tends to be inspired by vintage pieces, like cameos and old frames. Bringing in her love of fashion she also gets a lot of ideas from fashion trends from the 30s to 50s.

She is planning to complete her National Diploma for Jewellery Design and Manufacture and follow that up with studying Fashion design.  Her dream is to have her own Vintage store, having vintage clothing, along with her own clothing items and jewellery pieces that she designed and made. 

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Her main role model is Vivienne Westwood, she is the reason for Daniela’s interest in studying fashion design. She loves her style and how she manipulates the material to make these beautifully interesting designs. Her work is not wearable but explosively eye-catching and bold.

This neckpiece also includes a lace-like pattern, it looks almost antique,she sweat soldered the flowers within the pattern and finished off with blackening and a black silk ribbon. 

 Another influence in her life are her parents, being artists themselves. Her mother, is a painter and her father is a cheese maker and farmer. She is inspired by the fact that they are doing what they love. Her father loves landscaping, resulting in him designing their whole garden back home in Augrabies. Her parents also love to interior design, thus, her home being chosen to feature in Home Magazine.

These fly-pressed cuff-links are also cut out from a doily pattern but what also gives it that vintage feel is the blackening, and then theres a almost contrasting soft pink rose quartz, againts the "dirty looking" black.

Here are examples of her using cameo inspiration for fly-pressed and roll-pressed cufflinks, showing her love for vintage.

She plans to market herself by setting up a page on Facebook, and she also will depend on hear-say, ultimately she will set up her own website displaying her jewellery and her fashion pieces. This will give her the upper hand in the design industry, her having strengths in both jewellery and fashion. 

When looking at these casted rings you would not say this is the same person, they are very hard-edged, sleek and modern, very simple and clean, she explained that this is the other side of her style, she likes both decorative and bold designs. This gives her clients a lot of versatility, she will be able to satisfy a larger target market.

Here we are looking at some of the clothes Daniela has made, her love for vintage is quite obvious, and this shows in her choice of materials and colour cremes.

 Here is a dress she has made as well, a lot of her dresses and tops, have a signature style of buttons along the back, making it a wonderful feature that people would not normally look at.