Foam of Desire بنیادی کارد: لباس ڈیزائن by Kaiqi Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award برنجی انعام in کاسٹیوم ءِ هیریٹیج ویئر ڈیزائن Competition Category.
برنجکاسٹیوم ڈیزائن· 2026
Foam of Desire بنیادی کارد: لباس ڈیزائن
by Kaiqi Zhang
A' Design Award برنجی انعام Winner in کاسٹیوم ڈیزائن Category
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The Design
About Foam of Desire بنیادی کارد: لباس ڈیزائن
اے کار جدید صرفگرائی (consumerism) کیلے ٹیلائے گوں مرتبط آرزو ءُ پوچی ئے انتقاد ئے بنیاد ءَ آبادگ بوتگ، ءُ ای پوشاک ئے ڈیزائن ئے واسطہ ءَ مادی دولت ئے درون ءَ پروسگیں بیگانگی ئے سوال کنگ ءَ بہ کیت۔ ای آ ہفدہمیں صدی ئے اشرافی پوشاک ئے نوکیں تصور ءَ کنت، ءُ یک قالبجوڑیں پارچہ ئے رنگ آرگ ءَ یک پر ءُ کوہنیں شکلے ساز کنت کہ آرزو آنی واکیں جسمے ئے نقل کنت۔ یک پیروزی نیلوں رنگ، کہ شیریں گلابی ءُ بمارگیں زردیں سبزی ئے گوں ٹکر کنت، یک سطحی طور ءَ کشّشدارینگ بلے گہترین مزن ناآرامی ئے اثرے ساز کنت۔ ای کشمکش بینندگاں آرزو آنی فطرت ئے باروا فکر کنگ ءَ دعوت دنت۔
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award برنجی انعام
Foam of Desire بنیادی کارد: لباس ڈیزائن A' Design Award برنجی انعام ءِ ورگ آ انت، باز معزز اعتراف کہ تخلیقی صلاحیت، اختراع ءُ ذہانت گوں ممتاز بہترین ڈیزائناں دیگ بیت۔ برنج ءِ ورگ آ بھرپور مہارت ءِ ءُ نمایاں ڈولا تخلیقی شاہکار انت، کہ وتی ڈیزائنراں ءِ وسیع تجربہ، تخیل ءُ ہوشیاری ءِ تصدیق کننت۔ Foam of Desire بنیادی کارد: لباس ڈیزائن چہ امید کنگ بیت کہ آ یک باز قدر کنگ بوتگیں، ساراہگ بوتگیں ءُ پیارکنگ بوتگیں چیز بیت، قابل ذکر حد ءَ پیشہ ورانہ ءُ جدت ءِ۔ ای ڈیزائن کہ A' Design Award برنجی انعام ءَ برتگ، فن، سائنس، ڈیزائن ءُ ٹیکنالوجی ءِ بہترین طریقہ شامل کنت ءُ ہورد تفصیلاں ءَ توجہ دیگ ءِ سببا شاندار انت۔ Foam of Desire بنیادی کارد: لباس ڈیزائن ضرورتاں جوانیں ڈولا پورا کنت، خواہشاں ءَ ہنچیت، جذباں ءَ موہنت ءُ تجسس کشنت۔
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Inspired by Epicure Mammon from The Alchemist, this piece reimagines European aristocratic attire from the 17th century to question the concept of decadent luxury. Using a specially engineered moldable fabric, the garment swells into a bloated silhouette reminiscent of bubbles, evoking bodies consumed by desires. Vivid turquoise blue and pink create a visual allure that is both jarring and seductive, with a sugary quality that prompts viewers to reflect on overconsumption and inner emptiness.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- approximately 175 centimeters high, 140 centimeters wide and 80 centimeters deep
- Tags
- Clothing Design, Materializing Desires, Material Experimentation, Visual Metaphor, Irregular Forms, Visual Tension
- Production Technology
- A specially engineered moldable fabric, adhesive when wet, allows for intuitive hand sculpting of volumetric forms. By laminating foam into the fabric and injecting air, this approach creates irregular organic bubbles with a unique hybrid texture, which is both translucent and semi rigid. When illuminated, these forms look like a second skin, materializing the concept of internal collapse festering beneath a surface of opulence.
- Design Challenge
- The key challenge was to lead viewers from visual seduction to psychological unease, and the answer lay in color use. A rational turquoise blue base is invaded by lush pink accents that embody swelling desires, while traces of sickly yellowish green underneath hint at decay and exposure. The contrast between high saturation and low brightness, paired with matte and pearly finishes, creates a tension between a sweet appearance and hidden unease, turning initial allure into disquieting reflection.
- Research
- This work critiques the consumerist era by framing its core maladies: swelling desires and inner voids. Using the structure of seventeenth century aristocratic attire, the piece presents bloated, bubble like forms that symbolize a body consumed by insatiable desires. Jarring color combinations then guide viewers from visual seduction to psychological disquiet, ultimately revealing the spiritual barrenness hidden behind a luxurious facade.
- Inspiration
- This piece takes its cue from Epicure Mammon, an embodiment of insatiable desires in the play The Alchemist. It deconstructs the symbolic language of seventeenth century aristocratic attire to pose a question about beauty in excess. Each element becomes a visual narrative around the body, speaking of desires that swell, promises that prove false, and the inescapable reality of decay.
- Project Duration
- The project commenced in October 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The initial toile was completed in December 2023, and the project concluded in March 2024 with the completion of the final garment.
- Operation Flow
- This work redefines clothing from a mere covering for the body into an aggressive entity that devours it. The doublet, with its dramatically exaggerated chest and shoulders, achieves a swollen, voluptuous contour that makes inner desires visibly manifest in the flesh. The asymmetrically reshaped ruff collar, when illuminated, casts an encircling shadow, mirroring the confinement in a prison built from greed and vanity.
- Team Members
- Kaiqi Zhang
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