Cocle Collection Prêt-à-Porter Féminin by Bingrou Chen

Cocle Collection Prêt-à-Porter Féminin by Bingrou Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award d'Argent in Design de Mode, Vêtements et Habillement Competition Category.

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Cocle Collection Prêt-à-Porter Féminin

by Bingrou Chen

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Mode Category

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The Design

About Cocle Collection Prêt-à-Porter Féminin

Cette création est réalisée à partir d'anneaux en caoutchouc grâce à une technique de tissage spéciale adaptée aux matériaux annulaires. Elle permet de tisser ensemble des anneaux en caoutchouc pour créer un textile réticulaire et les transformer en vêtements portables sans endommager la structure annulaire, permettant ainsi à tous les matériaux du textile de rester intacts et réutilisables. De plus, elle ne nécessite aucune compétence professionnelle ni outil spécial, permettant même aux novices sans expérience en tissage d'utiliser facilement cette technique. Chacun peut ainsi confectionner facilement ses propres vêtements grâce à cette méthode.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Cocle Collection Prêt-à-Porter Féminin est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. Cocle Collection Prêt-à-Porter Féminin est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Cocle Collection Prêt-à-Porter Féminin est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This collection of dresses is totally made from rubber rings by a new weaving technique suitable for annular materials. This technique would not do any harm to annular structure that all rubber rings in the dress are intact and can be reused. In addition, this technique does not need any professional tools or flexible skills that even the laymen without any experience of knitting can use this process easily.
Dimensions & Packaging: The whole collection is 5 look womenswear, size 4.
Tags: Fashion design, rubber ring skirt, new material, weaving process, green design
Production Technology: Ring structure material weaving technique. This weaving technique is different from traditional weaving process as the latter one always use the linear material as the main materials. Rather, this new weaving process is suitable for rubber ring or other ring materials, and during the weaving process it wouldn’t do any harm to the weaving materials as well as needn’t break the ring structure, in other words, all rubber rings in my weaving words are intact，and，all rubber rings in my works can be reused.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge of the project was how to apply a variety of non-clothing materials to the textile and convert them into wearable designs. In addition, how to find and apply these materials is also a very challenging thing. I finally combine these materials in a purely handmaking way by creative weaving process.
Research: This design is aim at breaking the boundary between "clothing" and "non-clothing" materials to find new possibilities in fashion design. In my opinion, the exploration and application of new materials are very important, and, new materials are not only means high-tech materials, but also means materials which can be found in our daily life, such as rubber rings, metal rings and so on. I hope my design is not just a garment but a work of art that can inspire people.
Inspiration: Girls dream to wear beautiful dresses like a stars, however, the high price put them off. Requirement of social etiquette that people should not wear the same dress in many times causes a certain amount of waste. I hope fashion is not just about the elaborate and expensive dresses on fashion shows, but something available to all of us. The goal was to find and use the materials that can be found in daily life, and, convert them into wearable designs and high fashion by an easily weaving technique. It does not require professional skill and special tools that every one can make dress by herself.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2020 in Guangzhou and finished in September 2020 in Guangzhou.
Operation Flow: This technology is suitable for annular structure materials. It can weave rubber rings together to be a reticular fabric and convert them into wearable designs but not cause any damage to the annular structure that all the materials inside the fabric are intact and can be reused. When we dislike this dress, we can take the rubber rings out and knit them into a new garment. In addition, it does not require professional skill and special tools that even laymen without any weaving experience can easily use this craft. Everyone can knit his own clothes easily by this way.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Bingrou Chen, 2020.
Image Credits: Image #No1:Photographer Yiting Li，2020
Image #No2:Photographer Yiting Li，2020
Image #No3:Photographer Yiting Li，2020
Image #No4:Photographer Yiting Li，2020
Image #No5:Photographer Yiting Li，2020
Video：Photographer Bingrou Chen，2020