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Strings
alter-ego installation
brief
To create an installation by reinterpreting a selected artist's [Issey Miyake] form of technique and/or medium used in a creative manner. Year 1 Prelude Studies 2
Issey Miyake, an artist
who defies the conventions
of fashion design to create
new, awe-inspiring works.
This installation reflects the way
he deconstructs complexities
to their basic elements,
forming new, iconic works
of his own. Some notable collections include pleats-please and baobao.
by
Chelsea, Cynthia, Cebeste, Gideon, Jiaxuan, Kashwin, Miko, Reuben, Yeechen, Zhining
strings
Strings, representing the fundamentals of fashion design, are simply tied across the atrium and do not touch or intersect. Yet, they weave and interact to form visual interest and complexity as a whole. What they also form are different spatial experiences when viewed from different perspectives, like a poetic journey symbolic of movement, which Miyake constantly explores in the design of his clothes.
space between body and cloth
If looked at in detail, what one sees are individual strings, with gaps in between. These gaps portray the ambiguity of voids – the space between the body and the cloth. But when viewed on the whole as a bigger picture, one notices the implied planes the groups of strings create and the subsequent geometric shapes and volumes they thus form.
Fundamentals and simplicity are never too rudimental to explore, for these building blocks allow for the breaking down of old barriers and the creation of new realities which is what Issey Miyake brings to the fashion design industry.
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