Iron Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design · 2023
Self Defense Mechanism Garment
by Yi Tung Hung
- A' Design Award 2023 Iron Winner in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
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About Self Defense Mechanism Garment
Self Defense Mechanism is a menswear collection designed to act as a protective layer for the wearer. The collection responds to an era of information overload, in which people receive more messages each day than one person can absorb. Prints based on neuron and mesh geometry suggest spreading and blurring, so the outside world becomes harder to see and the mind can stay calm. Cotton and nylon mesh are sewn together to form a new texture that echoes the printed pattern. The garments follow standard men's measurements and can be worn as everyday clothing.
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- Unique Properties
- This collection perfectly embody the concept in our daily life. It easily can tell the whole concept from the appearance of the garment. These clothes are aimed to consider as a protective layer for ourselves to stabilize in this world. Avoiding us suffering from this world full of information. Thus, we can clean ourself clear and stay calm.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- measurement is same as normal garment for men
- Tags
- defense, protection, complicated, feelings, message, neurotransmission, electricity
- Production Technology
- Using neuron and mesh geometry on prints symbolizes the spread and blur which makes us can't see what the outside world looks like and maintain our mind clear. By sewing cotton and nylon mesh together to create a new texture which is similar to the pattern I design for this collection.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part is to create the texture by sewing cotton and nylon mesh together. It's hard to copy the shape of neurons.
- Project Duration
- The project started in September 2021 in Taipei and finished in March 2022 also in Taipei, made as my graduate project which also the last project before I graduate.
- Operation Flow
- People can wear this collection as normal clothing, but also wear it to anywhere depend on their feeling. As long as you feel great to this collection then that's the reason.
- Research
- It's the idea come up in my mind, the concept start from the imagination of me hiding in my own womb and observing this world. The real one hiding inside and the fake one control me to live my life. And It is exactly how the Augment Reality works. So in my initially research, it fulls of the image of AR(hiding in womb), neurons (feeling), electricity (neurotransmission).
- Inspiration
- In the era of information explosions, humans are stimulated by various environments. The messages that make us receive in one day actually are far more than one person could undertake. Consequently, these clothes are aimed to consider as a protective layer for ourselves to stabilize in this world. Using neuron and mesh geometry on prints symbolizes the spread and blur which makes us can't see what the outside world looks like and maintain our mind clear.
- Image Credits
- [#No.1: Photographer Hsinyen Lu, Self-defense mechanism, 2022 / Creator Yi Tung Hung (Designer)]
[#No.2: Photographer Hsinyen Lu, Self-defense Mechanism, 2022 / Creator Yi Tung Hung (Designer)]
[#No.3: Photographer Hsinyen Lu, Self-defense mechanism, 2022 / Creator Yi Tung Hung (Designer)]
[#No.4: Photographer Hsinyen Lu / Creator Yi Tung Hung (Designer)]
[#No.5: Photographer Hsinyen Lu / Creator Yi Tung Hung (Designer)] - Patents
- For copyrights: "Copyrights belong to YI TUNG HUNG, 1999"