Design Allstars

Design Allstars

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

 

Foam of Desire

Grounded in a critique of the desires and emptiness that define modern consumerism, this piece uses garment design to interrogate the alienation festering within material wealth. It reimagines seventeenth century aristocratic attire, shaping a moldable fabric into a voluptuous silhouette that mimics a body devoured by desires. A palette of turquoise blue, clashing with sweet pink and sickly yellowish green, creates a superficially alluring yet deeply disquieting effect. This tension invites viewers to contemplate the nature of desires.

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Cloud Cotton

Cloud Cotton is a collection of lightweight winter jackets. The collection uses the DuPont Sorona bio based fiber, of which 37 percent comes from renewable plant sources such as corn sugar. A three dimensional crimp structure forms stable air pockets that hold heat, and hollow low density fibers reduce fabric weight by about 30 percent compared with conventional cotton jackets. A durable water repellent finish and taped seams limit water penetration. An integrated hood, a tapered hem with hidden drawcords and hidden pockets complete the relaxed H line cut.

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Blue Ants

Blue Ants is a clothing collection made from transformed old garments. The dark blue fabrics are taken from blue work overalls, and decorative patterns are based on historical food stamps. The prints are produced with cyanotype photography, in which sunlight replaces a printing machine. Laser cutting gives the fabric a two-dimensional and three-dimensional effect that follows the curves of the body. The classic overall silhouette is twisted and bound. The collection is offered in variable sizes.

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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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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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