Damara Ingles is a designer of Extended Reality Experiences and Virtual Fashion. Born in Luanda - Angola, she grew up in Lisboa - Portugal and graduated in London. With a background in Fashion Design and Criticism, her practice appreciates the materiality and craft of clothes, as well as the emancipatory value of digitalising them, seeing technology as lenses to impact fashion on different fronts, so that it becomes more inclusive, sustainable and disrupted by innovative voices.
Her work showcases notions of diversity, inclusivity and nomadic thought in her process. Damara collaborated with VR designer SUTU on a first-of-its-kind immersive Fashion Show "Fabric of Reality", produced in collaboration with the Fashion Innovation Agency, Kaleidoscope and Verizon Media. Their piece Symbiotic_Wear, part of the F.O.R. is exhibited at the Museum of Other Realties.
In recent practice, Damara has used Extended-Reality and Immersive Fashion to challenge innovation in areas of new media and communication, retail spaces, sustainability and design.