Cristina Real
Designer and pattern maker for women's clothing
Professional activity and career
I graduated in Fashion Design from Ramon Llull University in 2012 and in New Media Art Curation in 2013.
Since 2013, I have developed a professional career linked to teaching, research and critical practice in the field of design. That year, I began teaching technical and conceptual subjects related to fashion design. I also started my first applied design research projects, collaborating with the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN) in the creation of synchronised swimming costumes, and with Intercolor (International Colour Association) in research into colour trends.
In 2017, I joined the design and pattern-making team of a company specialising in plus-size clothing for women. This professional stage was decisive in consolidating my lines of research, as it allowed me to delve deeper into the analysis of body standardisation in the fashion industry and the implications of pattern-making as a normative device.
In 2023, I became a mother and my work activity was reduced, however, I have continued my teaching work in collaboration with several design universities.
Research
My doctoral thesis analyses clothing pattern-making as a technical and cultural device for the production of bodies. The research examines how pattern-making operates through processes of abstraction, translation and standardisation that generate possible bodies and excluded bodies, exercising different forms of symbolic and material violence. The study focuses on the mechanisms by which the body is converted into a standardised surface, measurement and volume. The analysis is articulated through three theoretical categories of body production: body-map, body-dimension and body-table. From this framework, the thesis problematises pattern-making as a technology that does not represent the body, but rather produces it.
- Bachelor Degree in Design