Self Defense Mechanism Garment by Yi Tung Hung

Self Defense Mechanism Garment by Yi Tung Hung is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Competition Category.

IronFashion· 2023

Self Defense Mechanism Garment

by Yi Tung Hung

A' Design Award Winner in Fashion Category

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The Design

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.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Self Defense Mechanism Garment is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Self Defense Mechanism Garment is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Self Defense Mechanism Garment is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: CoolSymmetry: Both DirectionsBackground: Left and Right

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
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.
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.
Patents: For copyrights: "Copyrights belong to YI TUNG HUNG, 1999"
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)]