Design Allstars

Design Allstars

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

 

Ethnic Fusion

The jumpsuit is done on Indian ethnic printed fabric and can be donned on both casual outings and special occasions. The yellow color signifies both purity and sensuality and adds to the appeal. The inspiration is derived from ancient Indian scribbles coupled with modern design sensibilities. The idea was to design a dress that can act as a comfy jumpsuit and at the same time gives a high fashion statement.

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BlackSwan

Temptation of the black. The design combines different textures of the black fabrics and touches with golden accessories. Different textures of the fabrics can make the whole collection more interesting. Not only one way to wear, mix and match the style depends on the feeling of the day. Handmade knitwear with crochet gives more flavor to the collection. All together to make this temptation collection, to make the day fall into it.

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Nostalgia Moon

The collection Nostalgia Moon, designed by Chelsea Shin, was made to keep a promise with her grandmother, but that promise could not be kept. In 2021, she started to design the collection by recalling herself praying for the peace and well-being of her grandmother on the moon in the night sky. The most essential element of her design was adding circles and curves to the basic bodice patterns and using flexible boning to the edges of each garment to emphasize the softness of the round moon that she captured every night. Her garments were designed in 3 dimensions as if they were a round moon.

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Proof of Existence

The colors and symbolism of the rainbow flag were the inspiration for this ready-to-wear collection. In addition to their design details such as box pleating and shirring, each powerful look also has its hand-made pendants and beads attached to the fabrics creating textures. This intense monochrome and the unique eccentric silhouette supported by the construction details offer interesting visual impressions. It's all about how creatively the design language is translated into clothing without sacrificing the construction details or aesthetics, suggesting fresh new looks.

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Ethereal

This collection is named Ethereal, interpreted as a Sprite living in an Ethereal world. This collection adds innovative details to the traditional bridal dress-making process, such as choosing silk, tulle, and lace fabrics, and adding creative embroidery patterns on the basis of the fabrics. The appearance of the dresses used are maintaining the formality of the traditional wedding, but it interacts with the designer's style in details, such as creative uses of fabrics to make the dresses reflect exaggerated silhouettes or the combination of silk and tulle increases the hazy look.

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Humpback Whale Song

The collection is inspired by, the humpback whales and their songs. The idea of the project started to develop during and after a deadly injury that happened to the designer of the project. she sought help from a sound engineer friend of hers, to extract the sound spectrum of the humpback whale song. The process was followed by the design of a new graphical pattern with reference to the main sound spectrogram. Due to the cubic form and pixelated nature of the final pattern, she travelled to city of Yazd home of ikat in Iran to create her very own handmade fabric.

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