For my current project, 3D Textiles i will be creating a sculptural fashion piece. I have a hell of a lot of work to do as I'm off to Disney in...11 days (: Yay! After spending virtually half a day researching designers i feel incredibly inspired. The project is to create a piece using recycled materials, so instead of using fabrics i thought it would be a good opportunity to experiment freely with paper, magazines, vinyl disks, cassette ribbon, bottle caps and other things i come across.
Margiela is known for his upside-down take on fashion, deconstructed jackets, exposed seams and hems, and oversize proportions. A true innovator, he’s known to redesign old objects such as canvases, silk scarves, and wigs and turn them into couture garments. The idea of cutting up clothes goes back to the ripped t-shirts of the Punks and the subsequent street style of slicing jeans with razor blades. But the new deconstruction goes much further. Margiela has unravelled old army socks and made them into sweaters, transformed tulle ball gowns into jackets, recut secondhand black leather coats in the form of dresses, even made plastic laundry bags into clothes.
Iris Van Herpen
Van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer and couturier. She uses Adobe Photoshop to design, then works with an architect to make a 3D model. Before printing on a polymer. "resulting in a ready-to-wear dress that is an exact replica of the original sketched version."She creates a new direction of couture that combines a fine handwork of techniques with futuristic digital technology. The essence of Van Herpen is expressing the character and emotions of the unique woman and to extend the shape of the feminine body in detail. She mixes old and forgotten techniques with innovation and materials inspired on the world to come.
Iris Van Herpen
Van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer and couturier. She uses Adobe Photoshop to design, then works with an architect to make a 3D model. Before printing on a polymer. "resulting in a ready-to-wear dress that is an exact replica of the original sketched version."She creates a new direction of couture that combines a fine handwork of techniques with futuristic digital technology. The essence of Van Herpen is expressing the character and emotions of the unique woman and to extend the shape of the feminine body in detail. She mixes old and forgotten techniques with innovation and materials inspired on the world to come.
