Design Allstars

Design Allstars

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

 

The Opposite

The Opposite, a unisex fashion knitwear collection, aims to create a new concept of modern garments with multiple wearing methods. It features the zero-cut, zero-waste, highly adaptable, flexible wearability and longevity of the design through highlighting sustainable design thinking and digital design attributes. It intends to explore the process of confrontation and cooperation between contradictory elements through the development of flexible knitted structures and changeable garment constructions.

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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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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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X World

This work combines the palace lantern craft of China's intangible cultural heritage, using rosewood pear as the bone and silk gauze and glass as the coat. The combination of iron wire skeleton and silk gauze is both light and flexible, and layers of exterior insect skeleton are constructed on the human body. It's beautiful and fragile, flimsy and tough, and it shows the X-ray world of life.

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Zen Explorer

Zen Explorer is a reverse exploration experiment on the non-standardization of fashion. The collection method of antique cloth textile materials is classified and stocked. It is combined with the traditional fermentation mode to produce natural blue dye materials and re-make with new cloth. Most of the craftsmanship is handmade, and respect and retain traditional crafts and graphics, incorporate new circular design concepts, bring daily dressing styles and have durability and uniqueness.

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Gaofan Black Gold Goose Down

This down jacket is made of windproof, waterproof, and breathable volcanic rock fabric, filled with the high bulky white goose down, and integrated with the application of temperature locking, warmth, and other technologies to meet consumers' fashion, cold resistance, fashion, lightweight, easy-to-care and other dressing needs. There is no ostentatious appearance design, and the classic black-gold color scheme so that people can no longer fear the cold wind in winter.

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