THE BIG BANG!
The brief is set to identify one or two key areas that carry your fashion practise and the introduction of bio-materials the luxury end fashion sector. Using your own signature style to explore this emerging field of design to create and co-create specialist concepts and pieces of bio-fashion. You should also consider how you might shape a design probe/provocation in this field.
"My aim was to create a fashion provocation that questions the disposability of plant based materials. I researched natures life cycle and how we can give new life to old objects made from substances mined from the earth. Will the future of clothing disposability, witness clothes being transported up to the ozone layer, speeding up the decomposing process of bio-materials?"
THE VICTIM SHOOTS FIRST
"My aim was to create a fashion outcome that can protect a humans well-being as part of a survival requirement. My intentions were too explore protective scent weapons that one day will become a necessity rather than a desire. I aimed to create a fashion prototype as part of a collective exploring smells that can eradicate and repel bad negativity and protect the good through experimentation and research.
As part of my research I studied animals and how they use their scent as a defensive mechanism. I experimented with scents through shooting and explosives that could create an aura of smell with the push of one button creating a successful fashion future prototype."
PHOTOGRAPHER - Ezzidin Alwan
ITERATIONS:
Formal process of doing something again and again, to improve it or one of the times you do it.
"Design is an iterative process. This means that in order to design you have to test or explore something many times in order to justify an eventual end point. The iterative process is a fundamental part of what gives the end point its history and meaning. Without visual evidence of an iterative process the end point is largely mute and only communicates on a very superficial level, if at all. The iterative process continues until a resolution is reached."
FREEDOM - Let your mind take control without thinking too hard.
MYSTERY - Dissolvable fabric - Dissolves to nothing.
COLLECTION - Piecing together.
PROTECT - Padding.
RADIATION - Heat - Air insulation.
'At the beginning there was nothing...then came the BANG!'
"Life started as a chaos, forces were mixed up and nothing was organised or developed through a recognised pattern. Chaos isn't randomness, Chaos is wild, Chaos is complex. Chaos is part of the creative process, Chaos is molecular, Chaos is the infinite small and the infinite huge."
Below is an installation created by myself in collaboration with Richard Thorn.
Our installation is the journey of a mobile phone, stripping back todays high-tech, advanced app phone to the basic we once use to use purely for phone calls and texts.
'Crisis makes Diamonds'
"Imagine - It is 2030 and the government has banned fashion production on the industrious scale we know today - There is no-slow fashion and the fast, rapid fashion we knew in 2010 has become the business of yesteryear. Shockingly fashion designers and image-makers are striped of their staple design diet of dress - What will we do? The question is - If we only have our home, wardrobe and current surroundings as a resource to redesign and redefine style, how will you originate truly contemporary fashion?"
WEARABLE AIR
“For sometime, thought leading Fashion Designers have challenged artistic and design communities to question contemporary rituals of dress in developing and augmenting codes and modalities of modern fashion. This can often result in new signature forms that excite, offer provocation and occasionally shock.
From this, find a sensitive and purposeful position through the creation of a distinct design narrative. Using craft, technology, materiality or alternative methods produce a ‘thought provoking’ piece of work about The Body in the 21st Century and how this relates to your fashion practise
BUBBLE DRESS - Designed and 'BREATHED' by Jaime Russon
