About

My name is Misha Japanwala, and I am a fashion design major studying and now living in New York, but was born in London and raised in Pakistan.

What fascinates me about art is the ability to turn ideas, feelings, thoughts and questions into something tangible that can be viewed and interacted with by the world around us. I like to create things that tell a story, but that also have an unfinished narrative that is left for the viewer to discover and interpret, whether that is by standing in front of a canvas or wearing a garment and weaving their own experience and sense of self into it. In either case, I am not the one writing the conclusion, and it is this process that makes me so passionate about art.

Through my projects, I try to create things that are interweaved with the world they are inspired by. My research and inspiration inevitably always leads me back to my upbringing, where I am from, and the culture in which I grew up. As individuals, we all have an innate bias, and as a designer and artist, the best thing I can do is to reflect upon and submit myself wholly to what inspires and drives my process of creation.

I want to put into the world something that makes people think, question and dream. Isn’t that, in the end, what art is all about?