Protected Adjustment

Practice Autonomous Practices

Project Hacking

Major Fashion Design

Year Second year

The feeling of being different than others makes you try to adapt to the norm. This makes you constantly aware of protecting yourself. The question is: Do you accept yourself? Could you show us your real ‘me’? Or do you adapt to the norm?

Do you accept yourself?

I mostly trust my own intuition and my way of life. I base my projects on that feeling and I dig deeper back in time and how I felt on certain moments in life. That’s the strength of my autonomous thoughts.

Photography: Richard Du, model: Nigel Miguel, MUA: Marjan Boukes

www.mickeynerrings.com

About the author Mickey Nerrings

As a designer, I always focus on my personal life. What has my research to do with myself and, for example, my family? Is it love that broke me, or is it the way how the environment reacts to my appearance as a gay man. All these things are creating something in my head and, of course, on paper. Eventually, the designs come out. At the moment I work on a new collection inspired by my grandparents. The love they had for each other and how they lived their lives in times when not everything had to be perfect.