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Light Surge Womenswear Collection by Chen Yang

Light Surge Womenswear Collection by Chen Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Competition Category.


IronFashion· 2024

Light Surge Womenswear Collection

by Chen Yang

Client: Chan Yeung

A' Design Award Winner in Fashion Category

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The Design

About Light Surge Womenswear Collection

Light Surge is a womenswear collection that combines optical fiber with garment fabrics. The design explores the relationship between materials, technology and clothing. Optical fiber cloth, hanging fibers and hand-sewn crystal chains form a three-dimensional structure around the body. LED strips are inlaid into the garment structure. The light changes between blue and white in color and brightness. A set program runs with a switch, and mobile phone software allows control within a limited range. Glowing marine life inspired the collection.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Light Surge Womenswear Collection 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. Light Surge Womenswear Collection 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. Light Surge Womenswear Collection is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
"Light Surge" explores the relationship between materials, technology, and clothing. As a technological fiber material, optical fiber has more possibilities for the spatial structure between clothing and body. When the clothing combines the light -guided fiber with the artificial glass through sewing and handmade embroidery, the contrast and details of the light created.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 650mm x Depth 550mm x Height 1750mm
Tags
Conceptual design,New material,Optical fiber,Fashion design,
Production Technology
Mainly using optical fiber fabrics and garment fabrics and hand-seamed drill chains, mobile phone software is used in the control of light, which can be controlled remotely within a certain range.
Design Challenge
There will be many uncertainties in the debugging of light and the production of clothing. Such as the structure of light power supply and placement. As well as the more patient test is the hand-sewn crystal diamond chain, but the process is very happy and fulfilling.
Research
The design of the work comes from a photograph of a sea slug eating a silver coin jellyfish by photographer Gary Bell Minden. From the silhouette and structure of the garment and the presentation of light, I combine hand-stitched drill chains, garment structure inlaid LED strips and fiber-optic cloth. The three-dimensional knot made of optical fiber cloth and the hanging optical fiber make the clothing shape present a sensual spirit.
Inspiration
Inspired by some glowing marine phenomena and marine life. Such as fluorescent beaches and sea slugs. The light visually presents a burst of spring and a feeling of flexibility in the garment.
Project Duration
The project began in The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in December 2022, was completed in The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in March 2023, and exhibited at The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in May 2023.
Operation Flow
You can cycle the light transformation by yourself by turning on the switch through the set program, and you can also control the light transformation in real time through the mobile phone software. Make it change color and light and dark between blue and white.
Team Members
Chen Yang;
Tian Shun
Image Credits
Image #No1:Photographer Zhi Ke, 2023
Image #No2:Photographer Zhi Ke, 2023
Image #No3:Photographer Zhi ke, 2023
Image #No4:Photographer Zhi ke, 2023
Image #No5:Photographer Zhi ke, 2023

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