Fashion Design News

Fashion Design News

Fashion Design News featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

The Opposite

The Opposite is a unisex knitwear collection designed to be worn in multiple ways. The collection is made with zero-cut and zero-waste methods, so no fabric is discarded. Digital knitting is used to form flexible three-dimensional structures and changeable garment constructions. Items from the two outfits can be interchanged and matched in different combinations, which allows each wearer to create a personal style. The all-size design fits most people of average build. The Opposite questions common ideas about menswear and womenswear.

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Barebag Series

BareBag is a series of wearable accessories for people with limited use of their arms or hands, like those who've had an injury or amputation. BareBag's innovatively engineered anti-swing hook imperceptibly integrates into a fashion accessory, allowing users to hang any bag right at their waist without using their hands. Its ButterSlide technology also enables users to adjust the strap with just one hand effortlessly. BareBag is designed to make life easier for anyone who needs their hands free, offering a smart way to boost independence and improve the quality of life for its users.

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Turandot Armor

The costume industry generates pieces that become obsolete when the season ends, because they can rarely be used again. So, of this problem was that a sustainable costume project was proposed, which present a design for an operatic outfit using sustainable techniques such as upcycling with knitting deadstock and a creation of biomaterials made from orange waste based on the circular economy. The project seeks to reuse existing materials and develop new materials in order to counteract pollution in fashion.

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Hmong Silver

Cherished in the Qing and Ming eras, the Mamian heritage skirts are beloved for their symbolism of power and strength. Two exquisite techniques in oriental history : mother of pearl inlays and Hmong silver craft serves as the foundation for this design. Owning a Mamian heritage skirt is akin to possessing a fragment of oriental mystery. It is a celebration of nature's wonders, human ingenuity, and the timeless pursuit of beauty that transcends eras and cultures.

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X World

X World is a conceptual garment inspired by X-ray photographs of insects. The design translates an insect exoskeleton into wearable form, placing layers of shell-like structures on the human body. X World is made with the palace lantern craft of China, a technique listed as intangible cultural heritage. After many material tests, a frame of iron wire was combined with silk gauze, a pairing that is both light and flexible. The garment is delicate yet strong, and presents vulnerability as a temporary form of protection.

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Qwerty Elemental

Just like typewriters’ design evolution shows the transformation from a highly complex visual form to the clean-lined, simple geometric form, Qwerty-elemental is the embodiment of strength, symmetry, and simplicity. Constructive steel parts made by various craftsmen are distinctive visual feature of the product, which gives the bag an architectonic appearance. The essential peculiarity of the bag are two typewriter’s keys which are self manufactured and assembled by the designer herself.

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