We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Candy Scott a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Candy , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

I knew from a very young age that I was in love with the Arts, It was my very first love, I loved acting, dancing, singing, watching others in the composition of plays and dance. I loved the costumery, clothing and fashion.

I dreamed of creating wardrobes matching the ones in movies for my Barbie dolls, and necessity being the Mother of Invention lead to me picking up the needle and thread at seven years old. I taught myself how to sew new garments for my dolls.

A few months after I started learning how to hand sew I was visiting my Aunt in Chicago. By total kismet I met a girl who was my exact age and we fast became best friends for the short time I was there, her name was Natalie. One day she invited me into her mother’s office and work area.

Unbeknownst to me her mother was a fashion designer in downtown Chicago. Her mother’s coffee table was strewn with fashion sketch books, fashion photography books, pencils of every color you could think of, croquis galore. Natalie explained to me that her mother was a fashion designer and that it was her job. I can still feel the Wow & Flutter with this new found realization, it was like finding a gold key in my life path.

To be truthfully honest I didn’t even know up until that moment that fashion designing could be a career or a “job”. I just knew that I loved clothes, that I loved fabric, textures, that I loved watching fashion shows, that I loved creating concepts for garments.

This was the moment that crystallized this pursuit for me.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Candy Scott, I am also known under the artist moniker TechNoirCandy. I am a multidisciplinary artist and create digital art, visual animation content and a design a line of futurism athleisure brand.

My artwork is based mostly in collage, photography and video and most of my work is categorized under the Glitchwave genre.

My athleisure brand is created sustainably with less impact to the environment than 90% of the clothes you will see in any mall. My pieces are handmade beautifully and ethically using premium eco friendly and vegan inks. It isn’t just about wearing clothes, its about wearing a dream, and suiting up for the ultimate lucid dream adventure in this matrix reality. Its about technology aiding humanity into exaltation and therefore my brand focuses on creating wearable art with futurism aesthetics.

The mission is to create garments that will be worn as both functional items as well as works of art.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

We live in constructs of our own holographic limitations, myself included. My mission as an artist is to create paths for remembering, breadcrumbs for cosmic wanderers and really a celebration of the time space we are in. The quantum waves flow and flow, we can transmute and flip the reality on its head all that it takes is to remember and to have faith in the Future we can not see.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

As a fashion professional, I wish I had known about the FABRIC Incubator in Tempe, Arizona. When you are first starting out as a fashion fledgling on your own in fashion especially self taught, everything can be so daunting and almost impossible. Angela Johnson and Sherri Barry have created such an awesome roadmap and resources, its a journey on its own.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.technoircandy,com
• Instagram: @technoircandy
• Facebook: @officialtechnoircandy
• Twitter: @technoircandy
• Youtube: @technoircandy
• Other: TikTok: @technoircandy Email: Infor@technoircandy.com

Image Credits
Credits to models Lara Scott, Avalon Scott and Edwin Lunes (@edwinlunes Instagram Credit: Dawn Odoul @MossheartPhotography Instagram