About Viivi

I'm Viivi Valpuri

When I was 5 years old my favourite umbrella broke. So I turned it into a skirt and I've had a special relationship with clothes ever since. When I was young my mom would sew our clothes for us and teach me to sew too, a talent she'd learned from my grandmother. I firmly believe that clothes are more than just pieces of fabric we use to protect ourselves from the outside world. They are a way of revealing ourselves to the world telling others and ourselves who we are.

I became a Costume Designer in order to tell more stories through the garments, convey ideas and bring characters and the worlds they inhabit alive working through the media of films and traditional theatre companies both throughout Holland and Finland. I am now finishing my Masters Degree in Theatre Science, with Minors in Costume Design & Film. Together with Costume Design I harbour a special interest for Immersive Theatre, a form of theatre in which the audience is dipped deep into the created world. I’m definitely someone in who academical meets practical; I want both to get my hands dirty and my mind racing.