Emma Tsilele Basso-M'Timkulu
Contact: ebassomtimkulu@gmail.com
University/School: Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts
Website: https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/vN0s5faTr6oPL
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/junk.portfolio/
About me
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About me _____
Fashion design graduate who has a unique artistic style that mixes elements of digital and physical design, to produce fresh, thought provoking imagery. She has built her creative foundation over the past 8 years, as she has studied fashion design and art in New York, Milan, and Cambridge.
Emma won the London Graduate Fashion Week 2025 Fashion Illustration Award for her dynamic and tactile portfolio. She has been sponsored by the brands: Tommy Hilfiger, New Era Cap Company, Omer Asim, and Ian Mankin for her Graduate Fashion Week 2025 Collection. All of the art that she creates is centered around political issues, especially those impacting the crossroads she sits at: being Black and American.
Inspiration
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Inspiration _____
JUNK makes us look at trash, to reconsider and to see, to think, to begin to repair.
JUNK found its inspiration in my habit of collecting my own and other peoples' trash and ephemera. Especially receipts- receipts are everywhere, a useless record of purchase. This trash became dynamic collages. The American Dream has been trashed, swamped in the detritus of greed and garbage. JUNK is an homage to tarnished Americana. It challenges the wasteful nature of excessive consumption. It makes the process circular- desire becomes detoxified, the discarded regains its shine.
My work
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My work _____
“JUNK is satirical in nature and is hyper-aware of its own hypocrisy of being exactly what it is criticizing. Fashion is after all one of the main drivers of a consumerist throwaway mindset. ”
