Sunday, October 10, 2010

Relevant and interesting design designers and methodologies:

Comme Des Garcon:

The Lumps and Bumps collection 1997 s/s

Working away from the body using unconventional shapes to inform garments that are then put back onto the body – the lump and bump cushion forms are taken away and the garments drape onto the body.


http://fagcity.blogspot.com/2009/10/lumps-and-bumps.html

Issey Miyake: Pleats please

Using pleating to create shape in the negative space around the body, making this become more relevant.




Junya Watanabe - Techno Couture


Pleating + Drape = amazing.

Viktor and Rolf:

The dipped in gold collection was quite an interesting way of time and sculpture are used in a fashion context..


Unconventional Body Objects: Phuong Thuy Nguyen



Christian Dior:
Capturing the shape of the body

Balenciaga: silhouette

Looking at new methodological approaches in relation to silhouette and form that has been brought back onto the body.

Le Chou Noir evening cape, Cristobal Balenciaga, fall-winter 1967, photograph: Hiro Studio, left; cape ensemble, Olivier Theyskens, fall-winter 1999, photograph: Firstview.com

Andy Goldsworthy:

An artist that I thought was quite relevant to my work, he is informed by or evokes the passage of time. Working natural materials to create intensely personal artworks “movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of natural, the energies that I try tap through my way” TIME by Goldsworthy. Sometimes the outcome of a work is actively anticipated and other sculptures are completed with no other certainty than that the elements, the growth of plants and trees, or the intervention of people or animals, will determine their futures. Revisiting a piece to discover its progress or fate is as important as making the work in the first place.

Essentially TIME is a huge part of my work as my ‘garments’ change and have different stages that also work with time, and progress or fate becomes the most anticipated part of the outcome.

5 lun*na menoh:

Drawing on clothing design as inspiration, Japanese-born artist Lun*na Menoh’s playful creations subtly reveal sobering themes of alienation, loss, and decay

Lucy Mcrae and Bart Hess:

I find their mediums so interesting, especially in relation to the body, again they are playing with time and it is very much a momentous outcome, never being able to create the same the again. Time plays a crucial part in the creation of this as it does in my work when the overgarment becomes malleable and your work is set on a timer, there is no time for mistakes.


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