The future has to pass the fitting

A future can be magnificent in a sketch. Then someone has to lift an arm.
Camilla Wellton wearing a patterned garment and black neckpiece

Krull Magazine published a profile of Camilla Wellton on 24 October 2026, following her work from fashion and Afrofuturist costume to music and I AWAKE. Camilla Wellton: The Future Has a Body asks what becomes of technological ambition when a person still has to feel, move and choose within it.

A future can be magnificent in a sketch. Then someone has to lift an arm. Cloth has a wonderfully direct way of asking an ambitious idea what it intends to do about the person inside it.

Krull describes Camilla making her own patterns, toiles and first samples. It also follows her costume and styling work for FutureBrownSpace, John-Paul Zaccarini’s artistic research project. Camilla identifies as an Afrofuturist; here, imagining another future involved making clothes that performers could inhabit. A fitting gives the idea something useful: a chance to be altered by the person wearing it.

That encounter is also the subject of The Dressed Self: Fashion as Inner Tech, Camilla’s research note at the Swedish Institute of Inner Technology. The note considers how dress brings sensation, identity and social expectations into everyday choices. It asks what someone is trying to express, and how the conditions around them shape what feels possible to wear.

In I AWAKE, the reader works with a page. There is space for writing and drawing, alongside audio-guided practices and soundscapes. Camilla also makes music under the name GYNDROID. The forms change; the question of participation travels between them. What does the person bring to this encounter? What can they do with it?

For readers, that question begins close to home: with a sleeve that restricts a gesture, or a page that leaves room for an unexpected answer. The test is whether the person using either one has room to move and choose.

Read the Krull profile and explore the argument in The Dressed Self.

For an interview or images of the work, tell Camilla what you are covering and your deadline.

Person reading an I AWAKE book

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