AN IMAGINATIVE WORLD OF SIMURGH

A marriage of poetie and artistic imaginations through vivid and lively colours, magestie lines, curves and space.

ABOUT

Central Saint Martins Womenswear graduate, Oroy was born in Tajikistan and had lived there until she was 15 years old when she and her family have moved to the Netherlands. After spending 8 years in the Netherlands, graduating the secondary school and studying BA International Business and management studies at Rotterdam Business School she decided to begin with her artistic path.

Oroy has always had an interest for art and design and its relationship with human’s body and silhouette and as she has mentioned: ‘An emerge of a new idea in me has no beginning and no end. As long as my creative inspirations and skills are with me – I will create’.

The concept for the graduation collection 2020 – is a benevolent bird in Persian mythology and literature, which initially inspired Oroy during her trip to the ancient city of Bukhara (part of the Silk Road). Through her research she found a manuscript by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar – ‘The Conference of the Birds’ which illustrates a marriage of poetic and artistic imaginations through vivid and lively colours, majestic lines, curves and space.

Simurgh returning to nest to Zal and its chicks (detail).
—"Zal is Sighted by a Caravan" (Tahmasp Shahnamah, fol. 62v), Sackler Gallery LTS1995.2.46

Simurgh returning to nest to Zal and its chicks (detail).
—"Zal is Sighted by a Caravan" (Tahmasp Shahnamah, fol. 62v), Sackler Gallery LTS1995.2.46

Gallery

In search of Simurgh! A journey of thousands of birds towards the abode of Simurgh! A journey in which birds, a symbolic language for humans, experience Seven Valleys of Love, where not everyone survives