Zen Explorer ʻO ka Hōʻiliʻili Lole Kāne by Kuan Lu

Zen Explorer ʻO ka Hōʻiliʻili Lole Kāne by Kuan Lu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Lole, ʻAʻahu a me Kāpili Competition Category.

KalaLole· 2023

Zen Explorer ʻO ka Hōʻiliʻili Lole Kāne

by Kuan Lu

Client: Lu Kuan

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Lole Category

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The Design

About Zen Explorer ʻO ka Hōʻiliʻili Lole Kāne

He hōʻiliʻili lole kāne ʻo Zen Explorer i hana ʻia mai nā lole kahiko a me nā lole i hoʻoluʻu ʻia ma ke ʻano kūlohelohe. Hōʻiliʻili ʻia ka lole kahiko a hoʻokaʻawale ʻia ma muli o ka nui, ka mānoanoa, a me ke kau, a laila hui pū ʻia me nā lole hou i hoʻoluʻu ʻia ma ke ʻano kuʻuna o ka ʻinikō. Hana ʻia ka ʻinikō ma o ka hoʻomiko ʻana, me ka ʻole o nā kemikala ʻoihana. Hana ʻia ka hapa nui o ka hana me ka lima, no laila e mālama ʻia nā hana noʻeau kuʻuna a me nā lau. Hoʻohui kēia hōʻiliʻili i ka lole kahiko me ka hoʻohana hou ʻana o kēia wā, a hāʻawi i nā lole komo o kēlā me kēia lā e paʻa lōʻihi a laha ʻole.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Zen Explorer ʻO ka Hōʻiliʻili Lole Kāne i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Zen Explorer ʻO ka Hōʻiliʻili Lole Kāne he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Zen Explorer ʻO ka Hōʻiliʻili Lole Kāne e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This project "The Tao of Fashion: Re-cycle of Life" aims to subvert the stereotype of fashion industry. The methodology is to collect and classify the historic textiles initially, and incorporate the new material dyed by the traditional "Indigo Dyeing" technique. This project keeps all the craftsmanship handmade to respect and retain the traditional crafts and graphics, and incorporate contemporary upcycle design concepts, which could carry on the traditional oriental cultural and bring daily dressing code updated, durable and unique.
Dimensions & Packaging: The concept item is an artistic wearable item that can be used, and be an artistic installation displaying by hanging. The prototype structure of a suit grows out of the original antique "Hundred Sons" blanket.
Width 180 cm Length 200 cm
All ready-to-wear looks are size 48 male form.
Tags: Timeless, Clothing, Cultural heritage, Sustainable fashion, Recycle,Experimental
Production Technology: Mainly using mass-produced natural indigo dyed materials, combined with a small amount of precious recycled textile which is vintage pieces.
The unique essence and the production process have ethical considerations and sustainable fashion development. The indigo produced by R&D (ethical production&sustainable fashion) can only be realized through fermentation. The manufacturing process is natural and environmentally friendly without industrial chemicals. The importance of material recycling is also an important purpose of design and production.
Design Challenge: The concept and practice of this project challenge is about the development of sustainable fashion and the inheritance of slow handwork. Ideas on how design thinking can create original and unique products for balancing sustainable fashion industry and new aesthetic market.
Research: According to material properties, each piece of material has its unique "character". The method of classifying materials is combined with scale, thickness, and season to develop, mix with the new materials to make a design experiment of slow fashion and limited supply. Specifically, the collected antique fabric is used as a clue to develop the design system. How fashion can continue to be sustainable while taking into account creation, and a balanced combination of creating less waste and durability. It is a sustainable and contemporary fashion practice.
Inspiration: The design is inspired by exploring the depths of blue.
Indigo textile culture with a long history, blue is the ocean, the universe, and the central mind. Natural reincarnation is the exploration of Zen, and it is also a sustainable fashion practice in the present. From a point of view that old and new, gain and loss, useless and useful, trend and eternity are infusing. This project explores and balances the possibilities of design.
Using the traditional culture and crafts to combine with modern design elements to create unique practices and new inheritance.
Project Duration: Works was designed and produced in 2018.
Present in 2020 China National Silk Museum
Operation Flow: Cloth are half handmade and half machine made,which makes product as unique wearable item. The project is using natural Indigo dying to achieve a comfortable feeling, artistic textural surface and eco-friendly to sustainable fashion design development.
Patents: Copyright by Lu Kuan/WU ZhiWu
Team Members: Creative Director and Designer:Lu Kuan
Image Credits: WU (ZhiWu) by Lu Kuan
Photographer: Yang Feng
Model:Li Ming