A collection about anxiety and intrusive thoughts that transforms invisible emotions into a visual narrative, using fashion as a tool to give shape to inner noise.
How to Kill a Fly
IED Madrid - Student: Sabela Yilmaz Peinó
Academic year
2025-2026
How to Kill a Fly transforms the experience of mental obsession into a visual narrative in which a fly becomes a metaphor for the persistent noise that invades the mind. Through this story, the project explores anxiety, repetition and the search for calm, understanding fashion as a language capable of materialising invisible emotional states.
The collection unfolds as a sequence of transformation led by two symbolic figures: the fly, representing intrusive thoughts, and the spider, embodying patience and the ability to weave webs capable of containing chaos. Between them, the narrative moves from disorder and tension to capture, the digestion of inner noise and, ultimately, the recovery of balance.
This narrative is translated into design through careful pattern cutting and textile experimentation. Dissected silhouettes, enveloping volumes, visible basting stitches, twisted gauzes and distressed finishes create garments that seem to physically record the path of obsessive thought. A palette of blacks, greys, terracottas and muted blues reinforces the sense of erosion and transformation that runs throughout the collection.
How to Kill a Fly reflects on living with inner noise and the possibility of transforming it. A collection that understands design as a tool for giving form to experiences that are often difficult to express in words.
Sabela Yilmaz Peinó is a student on the Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Design.
