As a way to spark imagination, Amanda Wisselgren experimented with forms in constant change to create ‘What are you?’. The collection takes the constantly evolving shape of clouds and the figures they turn into as inspiration, instancing people to fantasize as if they were children once again. “As a child, we are used to playing pretend. However, as we grow up, we learn what is expected from the societal culture we are raised, and we start to adapt,” she says. Throughout the process, the designer has been working with dancers back and forth to develop this idea of garments that can take more than one form, trusting materials such as spring wires from second-hand pop-up tents and thin jersey fabric. “Although there is a lot of thought behind what would work the best, a lot of the result lies in accepting and seeing the potential in what is and not what could have been,” says Wisselgren. Keeping the forms simple instead of over-designing was not an easy task, but being open to hearing everyone’s ideas helped. “One of the goals is to generate a lot of associations, so I had to keep the base form open to many things. And whenever I did an association, I didn’t know if others would too,” she adds. “There has been a lot of work in accepting that I can’t only trust my own idea of something, I also need to trust my peers, the dancers, and so on.”