X World Clothing by Mei Pan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Golden A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Competition Category.
GoldFashion· 2022
X World Clothing
by Mei Pan
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Fashion Category
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About X World Clothing
X World is a conceptual garment inspired by X-ray photographs of insects. The design translates an insect exoskeleton into wearable form, placing layers of shell-like structures on the human body. X World is made with the palace lantern craft of China, a technique listed as intangible cultural heritage. After many material tests, a frame of iron wire was combined with silk gauze, a pairing that is both light and flexible. The garment is delicate yet strong, and presents vulnerability as a temporary form of protection.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
X World Clothing is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. X World Clothing is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. X World Clothing creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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We specialize in avant-garde fashion that bridges traditional Chinese craftsmanship with contemporary design innovation. Our expertise in palace lantern techniques and experimental materials creates wearable art pieces that challenge conventional fashion boundaries. Winner of the prestigious Golden A' Design Award.
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- Unique Properties
- I think the photographer Nick Veasey insects under the "X" in the light of photos have seemingly Chinese ink and wash shade of color piece changes, there are animal bones structure of organic combination, so I combined the intangible cultural heritage of China palace lantern craft, red sandalwood spend pear as bone, spun silk yarn coloured glaze is clothed, combining with wire system skeleton and silk gauze, The layers of exterminated insect bones were constructed on the human body.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 660 mm， Depth 30 mm， Height 72 mm
- Tags
- Concept， Clothing， Intangible cultural heritage， Insects， Bone， Silk gauze
- Production Technology
- Combining the palace lantern craft of China's intangible cultural heritage, after trying a variety of different materials and combinations, we finally chose the combination of iron wire skeleton and silk gauze, which is both light and flexible, to construct layers of exterior insect bones on the human body.
- Design Challenge
- China's intangible cultural heritage of the inheritance of the palace lantern craft, a large number of handicraft work and components of the combination of modeling attempt.
- Research
- The design of the work is derived from the first "X" light insect photos of photographer Nick Veasey. Starting from the materials and combination methods, I combined with the palace lantern technology of China's intangible cultural heritage. Finally, I chose the combination of the two materials, the skeleton made of iron wire and the silk gaux, which is both light and flexible. It has the aesthetic feeling of sensibility and rationality.
- Inspiration
- The design of the work is derived from the first "X" light insect photos of photographer Nick Veasey, and the insects in the photos are both emotional and rational beauty. I was deeply attracted by the insects, so the exoskeleton made into clothing.
- Project Duration
- February and March 2021
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts - Operation Flow
- Vulnerability is the body's natural "airbag" that turns it into protection when we are faced with a difficult or mentally challenging situation. I think of this protection as an insect exoskeleton attached to our bodies, providing a temporary sense of security. I made this "exoskeleton" into clothes. It's beautiful and fragile, thin and tough.
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