ARIANNA HYYTINEN
Creative Bio
Arianna Hyytinen is a designer based in Brisbane, Australia. Her love for art and design has been lifelong, with a strong background as an illustrator and painter, often reflected in her original print designs. She believes that we not only exist in our clothes but through them. Each piece we wear is reflective of our rich and complex existence, from the mundane and every day to the immaculate. She often explores these dichotomies in her work, her vision as a designer a combination of chaos and structure, featuring intense prints and raw textural manipulation across refined and timeless silhouettes, creating pieces that are uniquely beautiful and practical.
Design Statement
Old Gold is an homage to the past, a collection inspired by the comfort and familiarity of memory. This collection embraces the soft echoes that live inside the clothes that we have loved, borrowed, shared and outgrown. A coat passed between siblings feels that like home, or the matching dresses that sisters are forced to wear by their mothers. Fashion is a tactile diary of our lives, fabric worn and rewoven into our memories. The bespoke brass embellishments, golden shapes that scatter across the hero coat like weathered relics, and original prints reflect the way memories connect us to fashion and design.
Old gold honours the past, not as something lost, but as something lovingly carried forward. It celebrates the garments that weather with us, the bonds that they reflect, and the beauty found in the passage of time.
