Alternative Koleksyon sa Fashion nga Walay Gender by Yu Pei Kuo

Alternative Koleksyon sa Fashion nga Walay Gender by Yu Pei Kuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award nga Puthaw in Disenyo sa Moda, Bisti ug Sinina Competition Category.

PuthawModa· 2021

Alternative Koleksyon sa Fashion nga Walay Gender

by Yu Pei Kuo

Client: Alternative

A' Design Award nga Puthaw Winner in Moda Category

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The Design

About Alternative Koleksyon sa Fashion nga Walay Gender

Ang Alternative usa ka koleksyon sa fashion nga walay gender nga naglangkob sa napulog upat ka mga hiyas, lakip na ang mga taas, ubos, ug outerwear. Ang koleksyon giinspirar sa karaang mga besti nga unisex gikan sa Kasadpan ug Sidlakan nga mga kultura, sama sa Greek chiton, Roman tunic, Chinese shenyi, ug Thai jongkraben. Ang matag hiyas naggamit ug flexible nga mga koneksyon, materyales, ug pagpilo, aron ang pag-angay mahimong ipahiangay sa lain-laing lawas. Ang mga besti gipakita sa lalaki ug babaye nga mga lawas. Ang tumong dili ang pagtago sa lawas kondili ang paglubog sa naandan nga mga utlanan sa pamesti ug ang pagsuporta sa personal nga pagkakita sa kaugalingon.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award nga Puthaw

Alternative Koleksyon sa Fashion nga Walay Gender usa ka mananaog sa A' Design Award nga Puthaw, usa ka dungganon nga pag-ila nga gihatag sa maayong mga disenyo nga nakatagbo sa propesyonal ug industriyal nga mga gikinahanglan nga gipaabot gikan sa maayo ang pagkadisenyo nga mga paglalang. Ang mga mananaog sa Puthaw nagpakita og dakong kahanas, taas nga espesyalisasyon, eksperto nga pagsabot, ug mamugnaon nga abilidad sa ilang mga tiglalang. Gilauman nga ang Alternative Koleksyon sa Fashion nga Walay Gender mahimong gipabilhan, gihangaan, ug gihigugma nga paglalang nga praktikal ug bag-o. Kini nga disenyo nga nakadaog og A' Design Award nga Puthaw naghiusa sa labing maayong mga praktis sa industriya ug adunay hanas nga teknikal nga mga kinaiya nga nalambigit sa kahibalo ug talento. Alternative Koleksyon sa Fashion nga Walay Gender gitahod tungod sa pagkamaabtik niini ug gidisenyo aron maghatag og mga pagpaayo sa kalidad sa kinabuhi nga makatabang sa paghimo sa kalibutan nga mas maayong dapit.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The genderless collection project inspires Western and Eastern ancient unisex attires to gain flexible design ideas to melt into modern genderless fashion design—each item of the project design with flexibility as the solution to adjust the fitting with the different body. The collection titled "ALTERNATIVE" signs public the genderless concept, not hiding gender body but free the standard gender fashion blurs the boundary as another choice to enable self-identity.
Dimensions & Packaging: The collection contains 14 items to match different outfits with freedom, including tops, bottoms, and outwears. Each item design in reasonable dimensions under the width 500 mm X Height 200mm.
Tags: genderless fashion, ancient attire, flexible design, adjustment
Production Technology: Flexible connections, materials, and folding.
Design Challenge: Since being a student who studies fashion, the two standard pattern design methods, prototype and drapping, need to define the gender in advance to continue the design process. Although the research study and inspire the prototype from the ancient unisex attires, it is difficult to avoid the old design thinking but abandon the gender limitation. However, throughout a few rounds of the design experiment and modify the design thinking and process to melt the genderless concept and flexible design to fit with different gender one item design.
Research: The practical research explores a genderless collection wearable fitting with both gender bodies in one item with a flexible design that inspires from Western and Eastern ancient unisex attires. This study applies analyzing method to identify history, modernization, structure, and wearable skills to develop the practical experiment and melt various flexible designs with ancient costume prototypes to modernizes the collection. The genderless concept, not hiding body but free the standard gendered fashion to enable self-identity.
Inspiration: The genderless collection project inspires from the ancient unisex attires during the periods that gender and costume without a strong connection. Moreover, take the view from western to eastern culture, the project collects four ancient unisex attires of Greek Chiton, Roma Tunic, China Shenyi, and Thai Jongkraben. Throughout the analysis and comparison of the prototype, wearable skill, silhouette, features, materials to gain the ideas to melt into modern genderless fashion design.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2019 in Bangkok and finished in August 2020 in Bangkok, and was exhibited in Bangkok in September 2020 and Taipei in December 2020. The collection was also invited to present in the “Taipei Da-Dao-Cheng International Fashion Showcase”. The collection has been selected in “2021 Bangkok Design Week” and will exhibit in Bangkok in May 2021.
Operation Flow: The genderless collection project gains the idea of flexibility to fit with the different gender bodies. Each item of the project was designed with different flexibility to adjust to fit with different bodies, such as connection, materials, and folding prototype. The genderless project presents the garments on male and female bodies to show the various conditions that discovering the genderless concept not to hide gender body but blur the boundary to free the standard gender fashion.
Image Credits: Image #1: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
Image #2: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
Image #3: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
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Image #5: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021