Press Release
Monologue Transformative Fashion by Joyce Li Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Joyce Li for fashion, apparel and garment design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Monologue Transformative Fashion by Joyce Li, designed for Chiayi, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Monologue Transformative Fashion
Monologue is a transformable fashion collection that provides portable private spaces for the wearer. Each garment holds lightweight, expandable structures that open to form a personal shelter and close again when not needed. A dress becomes a sleeping bag, jackets include built-in face coverings, and tops expand into tents. The structures are inspired by the engineering of children's pop-up books and are built with tailoring materials such as neoprene, silk-wool blends, cotton twill and horsehair. The linings are printed with hand-painted, calming imagery in monochrome tones.
About Joyce Li
Joyce Li is a Parsons School of Design graduate whose work debuted at New York Fashion Week in 2021. Her graduate collection was featured in Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar UK, Schön! Magazine, ELLE Taiwan, Vulkan, and more. Known for her interactive and transformable designs, Joyce invites wearers to personalize each piece, forging a deeper connection with their clothing. Her aesthetic blends sculptural silhouettes, clean construction, and a soft, muted palette to evoke a sense of quiet elegance.
Award Record
Joyce Li is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Award
The A' Fashion Design Award is an international fashion design competition recognizing good fashion designs by best fashion designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to fashion designers, apparel designers, garment designers and textile designers from all countries. Typical entries include runway collections, dresses, suits, skirts, outerwear and jackets. The awarded fashion designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fashion
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/114220
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/114220
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!114220
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/292235
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.joycechiayili.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Monologue Transformative Fashion
- Function
- Transformative Fashion
- Category
- Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Antique White, Light Steel Blue, Gainsboro, Light Gray and Light Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Chiayi
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Joyce Li
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #114220
Credits
- Team
- Designer- Joyce Li
- Image Credits
- Photographer Sanko Chi, 2020.; Photographer Alessandra Bonizzi, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The collection explores transformable garments that allow the wearer to quickly self-isolate. Embedded within the construction of the garments are lightweight, expandable spaces that are easy to access when privacy& protection are desired. A dress that transforms into a sleeping bag, jackets with built-in face coverings, and tops that expand into tents are integrated collection in calming monochrome fabrics. Within the expanded spaces are washes of psychologically soothing imagery.
- Inspiration
- Monologue examines humanity's need to protect itself from our Increasingly oppressive external environment; it maximizes the utilitarian function of clothing by providing portable safe spaces. Constructed using traditional tailoring techniques, each form draws inspiration from engineering methods used in children’s pop-up books. Although it was not the initial impetus for Monologue, Covid-19 has highlighted the importance of isolation and distancing oneself from the world to regain stability.
- Research
- The strcutres of this collection referenced children's pop-up book, with beautifully rendered sceneries that draw the readers into its imaginative world, the collection aims to achieve the same effect - to transform the wearer into delicate and soothing narratives. Expanding the garment is as one would with a book. The garments are engineered to expand effortlessly by the wearer. The collection is fully embedded with little surprises, emphasizing fashion is beyond garments.
- Challenge
- The main challenge of this collection is to fully realize its concept and transformations in fabrics. How could I effectively set up a personal space by myself, and where could I hide it in my garments so these spaces are portable. Precise measurements and accurate patterns are keys to ensure the stability of structures as well as smooth expansion and concealing of the pop-ups spaces. In addition to the construction, material choices are just as crucial. For Monologue, all the materials applied are materials only used for garments constructions which makes the collection very wearable.
- Realization and Technology
- To provide stability and structure to the pop-up silhouettes, each garment is provided with different under fabric structures. I produced neoprene with fusible, double-bonded silk-wool blend, cotton twill fused with horsehair and batting, and wool fused with horsehair. In addition, I painted the lining prints with Gouache and set the patterns to on repeat in Photoshop. The final patterns are printed on silk crepe and poly charmuese.
- Operation and Interaction
- All designs in this collection are transformable into two looks minimum. The wearer can adjust the garments to fit one's emotional state accordingly. Depending on the level of privacy desired, the garments can be adjusted. Despited the seemingly experimental concept, the designs are fairly wearble due to the materials used are strictly tailoring materials.
- Project Duration and Location
- Monologue started in June 2019 and was completed in August 2020. The collection is exhibited on "Here and Now," a digital celebration created by Parsons School of Design in collaboration with Solange’s Saint Heron.
- Specifications
- The collection consists of 5 looks in size 6.
- Keywords
- transformative fashion, Wearable Sculpture, Monochrome, Interactive Designs, Prints Design
