Éver Lavén, [eːvɛrː] [lɑːveːn], is a Swedish-born multidisciplinary artist with a focus on fashion as a language of identity. In 2021, Lavén was a recipient of Anne Tyrrell Design Legacy Scholarship Awards and Carl Casons Scholarship from the Swedish Trade Federation. Before the RCA, Ever graduated from London College of Fashion in 2017 with a BA Honours degree in Fashion Sportswear and was awarded a merit in 'Excellence in clothing design'. Ever has completed a diploma of foundation studies in Womenswear at Parsons in Paris (now PCA) in 2012 and undergraduate studies in critical theory of visual and culture.
Ever Lavén
My time at the RCA has been about investigating the intellectual value of fashion, looking at areas in need of intervention, and acknowledging the role of a designer, our accountability, and our responsibility for representation and storytelling. Addressing the importance of fashion as a language of identity, diversity, and inclusivity, my work is a strange land with stories about the unseen, unheard and unrepresented. Exploring new spaces, between the physical and digital, outside harmony and structure, expressing affinity for people outside the gaze of our culture's matrix of youth and beauty.
The body is a central source of inspiration to my aesthetic voice, its perfections and its flaws, the desire for visibility and invisibility, and the tension in between, giving anatomy and cuts of exaggerated articulation. I capture errors in the methods of making, between the real and the digital, aiming for beauty in dissonance.
Responding to the demand for sustainable business models and methods, my concept considers ideas of humanizing digital experience and bridging it with the physical practice, reducing waste, preserving material empathy, and traditions of making. An expression that the essence and value of fashion design are in the human heartbeat.
This is a brief display of work produced over the final year, exploring a world with individuals of all ages and genders, a space in between the real and the digital. Investigating new methods of making and experiencing physicality and material empathy.