Perception of the Eyes Wearable Art by Karina Frances Edmonds is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Competition Category.
BronzeFashion· 2020
Perception of the Eyes Wearable Art
Client: Karina Frances
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Fashion Category
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About Perception of the Eyes Wearable Art
Perception of the Eyes is a wearable art dress inspired by eyes and vision. The garment mirrors the form of an eye on the bodice, where the breast suggests the shape and the nipple marks the pupil. Strips run from that point toward the ground, crossing at set points of intersection to form a pattern that falls into waves. The pattern recalls scientific diagrams of the refraction of light. The bodice is built as a corset with wire and stiff faux leather, which allows the strips to be pulled tight. The hip lines echo vintage shapes in a contemporary form.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Perception of the Eyes Wearable Art is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Perception of the Eyes Wearable Art is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Perception of the Eyes Wearable Art splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
This dress is inspired by eyes and their magical properties with their ability to create, reflect and translate perceptions of the world around us. It is this deep infinite illusion eyes radiate that inspired this dress. The wonder and mystery in eyes is seen in its abstract translation, on the breasts.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Because this piece was also inspired by space and its realm, gravity was really the only grand entity I had to work with, to achieve its supernatural shape. The construction of this piece had a prominent focus on its structure as the piece relied heavily on the from, and the geometric reflections.
How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
Every figure I ever draw is entirely different and unique with its own shape and curve. From there, many of my designs are born from a unique line found on the figure which then becomes a second skin and art as the garment itself is born from there. The design itself was instant, but of course through new measures taken by the shape, and structure of the piece, the design was developed over time! This piece was part of my first ever collection or pieces of garments ever created, so there was definitely a lot of modification that went into the design as I tried working closely with reality, while still thriving to achieve the original idea. As a first of times, when designing, I never really considered aspects from reality like material, or structure and gravity.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The uniqueness in my design is born from the empowerment created for one to radiate. Empowerment is also my inspiration. My design mirrors an embodiment of this spirit. This garment speaks about eyes and their poetic power. The design boldly enhances the human body, through the rawness of the breasts, mimicking eyes, to the enhanced hip lines, through sculpture. The leather strips, architecturally strike down from the pupil (nipple) to create an illusion lasering out as a form of vision and structural support. Beauty in design shines when poetry meets function.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Size 6
- Tags
- wearable art, eyes, vision, perception, poetry
- Production Technology
- The materials used for the geometric elements are particularly effective. By constructing a corsetry bodice from more robust elements with wire and stiffer fabric such as faux leather, the contrasting silhouette strips are enabled to be pulled tight and hold the criss-cross pattern beautifully, before falling into waves. This is reminiscent of scientific diagrams of refraction of light. The production of this design regarded structure, architecture, form and the body. In the making and testing of this design, I thought about physics regarding matters like the laws of gravity and structure in terms of its architecturally inspired form.
This dress has a sense of history in its construction echoing vintage hip lines whilst displaying thoroughly contemporary vision.(regard pdf) for full version of "Production, realization technology and materials) - Design Challenge
- Beginning with the research I was challenged with deep inner reflection, about myself, and identity regarding the theme “Who am I”. Especially because I haven't found myself in this stage of my life as a 15 year old. I believe we are always changing and growing as people, and a society. Also, I faced challenges that regarded transferring my ideas from my pen to the needle, as this was the first time I had created a collection.
- Research
- I looked at many sources that helped me better define my knowledge to create a 5 piece collection that could reflect me as a person and unravel my identity. Second, after building my knowledge to a level at which I was confident, I could begin the artistic journey, I began designing. Even when designing it seems as if research and design overlapped, because I was always learning something new. Everything I learned was applied to enhance my skills and help my ability in creating material that is so new to me in the arts. (regard pdf for full research)
- Inspiration
- I was inspired by eyes and their magical properties with their ability to connect, reflect, and create visual poetry of the world around us. This poetic and magical ability for an eye to radiate vision is the inspiration for this dress. One can see these definitions through the garments architectural forms and illusions that run from the nipple to the ground.
- Project Duration
- My fashion journey began with research April 2019, designing in May 2019, and finally completed in the summer of June 2019. The dresses were then showcased on the runway at NewYork FashionWeek Fall season (F/SS NYFW), the 7th of September 2019
- Operation Flow
- The design has specific details that make the whole difference when looking at its performance as wearable art. While wearable art is very abstract and not the most wearable, I tried to make my designs so that they can still perform with attributes of the body making them more wearable. There are significant details that allow for this to happen, still encouraging the possibility of my design without making any major adjustments. This includes different systems created to convert art into wearable art.
- Patents
- N/A
- Team Members
- Tailor 15% work with patterns-( technical element).
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Bruce Wang, 2019
Optional Image #2: Bruce Wang, 2019
Optional Image #3: Bruce Wang, 2019
Optional Image #4: Bruce Wang, 2019
Optional Image #5: Bruce Wang, 2019
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