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The Great Silk Road Colección de roupa feminina by Alsu Biryukova

The Great Silk Road Colección de roupa feminina by Alsu Biryukova is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Prata in Deseño de Moda, Vestiario e Prendas Competition Category.


PrataModa· 2020

The Great Silk Road Colección de roupa feminina

by Alsu Biryukova

Client: Biryukova Alsu

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Moda Category

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The Design

About The Great Silk Road Colección de roupa feminina

A Gran Ruta da Seda é unha colección de roupa feminina inspirada na histórica ruta comercial que uniu Oriente e Occidente. A colección componse de vinte pezas, incluídos sombreiros. Cada peza está feita con tecidos naturais e decorada a man con cintas de seda natural. Os tocados están confeccionados enteiramente a man con tecidos de seda de diferentes texturas. Os patróns reproducen o vento sobre as areas do deserto, os arrozais en terrazas de China e as liñas das fallas rochosas. Cada peza preséntase como unha postal dun destino de viaxe. As pezas de alta costura poden combinarse e levarse na vida cotiá.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

The Great Silk Road Colección de roupa feminina gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que The Great Silk Road Colección de roupa feminina sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. The Great Silk Road Colección de roupa feminina é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
This collection of clothes tells about the Great Silk Road.
Each item is made of natural fabrics and decorated with silk decor by hand. Headdresses are made entirely by hand from silk fabrics of different textures.
Each item is a postcard from different travel destination and tells its story.
Dimensions & Packaging
The collection consists of 20 items of clothing, including hats. Clothing size SM. All clothes and hats are made of natural fabrics.
Tags
couture, silkroad, silk, wind, embroidery
Production Technology
For the manufacture of decor in my work, ribbons made of natural silk were used. These ribbons are sewn by hand. Patterns on products repeat patterns of wind in the sand, rice terraces in China, patterns of faults in rocks.
Design Challenge
This design was quite complicated in execution, because the main work was done manually. It took a lot of time. And I also wanted to convey a complex range of impressions from studying the history of the Great Silk Road.
Research
This collection is an attempt to combine the eastern and western cultures that are inside of me. This is a story about the beauty of the East, as travelers of the Great Silk Road once told about it many centuries ago. Each item is a postcard from different travel destinations or a valuable gift in the East. You can see the rice terraces of China, and the night peonies in the Japanese garden, and the wind patterns on the sands of the desert, and feel the coolness of the oasis, and open the Chinese casket
Inspiration
The Great Silk Road is not just a trade route, it is a unique historical phenomenon that introduced two different worlds - east and west. This is the appearance of new cities and countries, this is the spread of science and culture, this is the path to unknown and new discoveries. This collection is my view of the mysterious east. Blooming Japanese gardens, patterns of wind on the sands of the desert, cool oases, desert mirages, rice terraces, varnished Chinese caskets can all be seen in my collection.
Project Duration
The project began in 2013, when the first coat in this technique was created.
Then the collection was gradually replenished.
In 2018, an exhibition was held in Russia, the city of Samara, called the Great Silk Road.
in 2018, this collection took part in the contest "New Names in Design", the city of Samara, Russia
in 2018, the collection became the winner of the fashion festival, Russia, Samara.
in 2019, the collection won the Ulyanovsk fashion week contest
Operation Flow
All garments look alive. Different items of clothing go well together.
This is a couture clothing that is comfortable to wear in everyday life.
Image Credits
image 1: photographer Malushkina Tatyana, 2018
image 2: photographer Malushkina Tatyana, 2018
image 3: photographer Alena Ostankova, 2019
image 4: photographers Alena Ostankova, 2019
image 5: photographer Malushkina Tatyana, 2018

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