Bart Hess: From Fashion to Mutation

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Bart Hess (1984) explores several fields combining material studies, animation and photography in a surrealist manner. With his fascination for the human body and the manipulation of it, Hess pushes the boundaries of the textile design profession: his designs transcend the craft, as Hess chooses to extend them via other media such as film, photography and animation. His futuristic materials and textures blur

Cute Circuit: Techno Couture

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CuteCircuit is headquartered in Shoreditch, artistic heart of London, where the Creative Director Francesca Rosella, and CEO Ryan Genz are the design duo behind all of CuteCircuit’s amazing creations. CuteCircuit come with a host of internationally fashionable and fabulous celebrity fans. Most recently, Nicole Scherzinger debuted the world’s first haute couture dress to feature Tweets, designed and created by CuteCircuit. CuteCircuit is also the high

Noa Raviv: Hard Copy Fashion

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Israeli fashion designer Noa Raviv has integrated 3D-printed elements into ruffled garments influenced by distorted digital drawings. Noa Raviv printed and stitched lines and grids onto fabrics to evoke images of corrupted 3D drawings made using computer modelling software. “While working on a 3D software I was fascinated by the grid shown on the 2D screen and by the way black repetitive lines defines

Bea Szenfeld: Sad Girls Club

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The Polar Music Prize 2010 is being awarded to Icelandic artist Björk. During the award ceremony the star wore a Bea Szenfeld garment. It´s a handmade piece from Szenfelds latest collection, “Sur la Plage”. The suit jacket is totally made out of three-dimensional paper sequins. This shimmering pinkmetallic garment is a part of a magnificent haute peppier collection. The inspiration for the “Sur la Plage”

Maiko Takeda: Soft Quills

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Maiko Takeda is a milliner and jewellery designer. Originally from Tokyo, Japan, she recently completed her MA in millinery at the Royal College of Art in London. With her expertise and prior knowledge of jewellery design gained from her BA Jewellery Design (Hons) at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, her interest lies in creating ethereal adornments to the body. Environmental influences

Louise Richardson: Memory and Identity

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Louise Richardson studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design where she obtained a Fine Art BA (painting) followed by a Fine Art MA (multi-disciplinary).

Storytelling and humanity form the basis of Louise Richardson’s work. Garments and sculptures made from a diverse selection of materials give a glimpse of untold tales. ‘Butterfly Dress’ is brimming with an intense sense of animation,

Matija Čop: Object 12-1

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Working on the cutting edge of contemporary fashion, not to mention unafraid of dealing with some difficult questions that sit at the very heart of his practice (fashion is, after all not just about the clothes), young fashion designer Matija Čop is definitely going to prove to be a name to remember in the coming years. Born and raised in Croatia, before turning to

Alexandra Stück: Wearable Scent

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Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alexandra Stück designed textiles infused with different remedial herbal scents to make the wearer feel calm, focused or horny. Combining Alexandra Stück’s aromatic liquids with water and handwoven linen fixes the therapeutic scents into the linen for up to six months, to be released by body warmth, touch or movement whenever the fabric is used. Inspired by the alternative therapies developed

Sammy Jobbins Wells: Biocouture

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Designer Sammy Jobbins Wells has stretched material made by bacteria over structural frames to create a set of wearable objects. Sammy Jobbins Wells’ Skin project involved growing bacterially produced cellulose, started with a culture from a kombucha mushroom that she bought from an internet retailer. “Acetobacter bacteria spins cellulose – a by product – as it consumes glucose, the reasons for which are unclear but

Martijn Van Strien: Brutalist Outerwear

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If ever the worlds of fashion and science were located on two different sides of the universe, Martijn van Strien is well on this way to assemble them together into one perfect dark harmony. He creates a world where anything is possible and constantly changing. Urban becomes rural, ugly turns into beauty and rainbows come in black and white. Ever future-focused, his aim is to