# Lightness and darkness, the art of Gareth Pugh

Here is an overview of the work of the young and talented fashion designer Gareth Pugh. On the following pictures you will see how his using tiling, inflated balloons, perpex or shiny vynil to create amazing wearable sculptures.
This video is a collaboration with Gareth Pugh and the famous photographer/director Nick Knight.

# Alexander McQueen's vision

Alexander McQueen is a fashion designer proposing a very interesting and original vision of the human body and fashion. In his last show in Paris (see all the images below and the video on official website) he presented what I interpret as stakes which would potentially remodel the human body in a kind of intriguing mutant ready to join David Lynch's Dune world.
McQueen is also using robots as a representation of otherness. Voyeur cameras peeping at girls in his last show, he also conceive what I would call ejaculatory robots in 1999 which were soiling the model's white dress with sperm/paint. You can watch that on this last video after 40s of visioning.

# Architectural Clothes by Nahum Villasana

Still into clothes design, here are the architectural clothes created by a mexican designer, Nahum Villasana. Those seem to be very responsive to the body torsion and compression if I am architecturizing the body language which is more often the contrary.

found on coolhunting (where you can find a little article) via architechnophilia

# Hussein Chalayan in London Design Museum

For the lucky guys who'll be in London starting from today until may 17th, the new exhibition, called From fashion and back, in the Design Museum is about Hussein Chalayan. I already wrote three posts (1, 2 and 3) about his work, so I won't present it again, but I am still convinced that Chalayan embodies pretty well a multidisciplinary research, always questioning fashion's limits and creation's influences.

# SMALL /// Usman Haque's Configurable T-shirt

Before a longuest article about Usman Haque's work very soon, here is one of his little creations: the Configurable T-shirt.

This is a t-shirt for which the wearer designs what goes on the front, a further experiment in how to design low-tech systems that are open enough to allow for other people's designs yet specific enough to provide an intriguing starting point. It's often difficult to design on a completely blank canvas, so this t-shirt provides a matrix of pixels that can be coloured in with a black felt-tip pen in order to turn them "off".
The t-shirt is printed with rubber foam ink so that the black pen ink soaks in really well. As the t-shirt fabric colour is already black it doesn't matter if people go out of the lines or if the pen is too fat: it won't show up. As long as an entire pixel is coloured-in, it will look neat and tidy, just like a professionally designed and printed t-shirt.

see official page

# Self-Sustainable Chair by Joo Youn Paek

Presentation Text:

Self-Sustainable Chair, a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. The dress slowly transforms into a chair with each step and holds the person to sit on it naturally. With his or her body weight the chair is slowly deflated and forms back to the original flat dress. Self-Sustainable chair is a conceptual garment that motivates users to consistently switch between walking and sitting as a loop behavior on the street. The balance between exercise and rest would be maintained by wearing this suit. The purpose of this project is to transform the humdrum experiences produced by routine walking commutes into an amusing interactive performance.

See Official Page for videos

# The T-shirt issue by Mashallah Design & Linda Kostowski

Three different T-shirts created by digital portraits (3D data) turned into 2D sewing patterns. Portraits are including an element from the biographical memory of the person.
These beautiful clothes have been designed by Mashallah Design and Linda Kostowski.

Found on Dezeen

Wolf (419 faces)

Swimmies (378 faces)

Juki (318 faces)

# Hussein Chalayan & Thomas Heatherwick / Interview

After several posts about Hussein Chalayan and Thomas Heatherwick, here is a dialogue/interview between them that Time Out organised. You can also read this interview's introduction here.

# Hussein Chalayan strikes again

Hussein Chalayan last 2008 collection contains a set of laser dress as impressive as usual (see older post). Red lasers are rotating and reflecting on cristals. Chalayan is still the only designer I know who is constantly looking for linking fashion and technology and therefore, to some extent to mix human body and technology (if someone knows another one, comments are open !).

Here is a video where you can see the entire collection but if you are only interested by these technologies dress go directly to the 8th minute.


Here is another one with a making of

# Hussein Chalayan

Lorsque la haute couture décide de s'adapter aux besoins et désirs instantanés en utilisant la technologie, cela donne le travail d'Hussein Chalayan, designer chyprio-anglais. La beauté du "mouvement en train de se faire" de Deleuze (à propos de Leibniz). Puisse-t-elle vous servir d'inspiration...




(voir les vidéos sur youtube)