Flatter Your Body Primary Function: Nchịkọta Uwe Ụmụ Nwaanyị by Yunji Lee

Flatter Your Body Primary Function: Nchịkọta Uwe Ụmụ Nwaanyị by Yunji Lee is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha in Nhazi Ejiji, Uwe na Akwa Uwe Competition Category.

ỌlaọchaEjiji· 2021

Flatter Your Body Primary Function: Nchịkọta Uwe Ụmụ Nwaanyị

by Yunji Lee

Client: Yunji Lee

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha Winner in Ejiji Category

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The Design

About Flatter Your Body Primary Function: Nchịkọta Uwe Ụmụ Nwaanyị

Book Text: Flatter Your Body bụ nchịkọta uwe ụmụ nwaanyị nke nwere ọdịdị isii emere iji dabara ụdị ahụ dị iche iche. Nchịkọta a na-akọwaghachi corset, bụ uwe nke na-adịbeghị mma iyi na akụkọ ihe mere eme. Ọdịdị ọ bụla nwere ụdị silhouette dị ntakịrị nsụ-nkata nke nwere eriri lacing edobere gburugburu ara, ukwu, na nkwonkwo ukwu. Nkpịkọ ma ọ bụ ntọhapụ nke eriri ndị a n'ebe ndị a họpụtara na-enye onye na-eyi ya ohere ịgbanwe ọdịdị uwe ahụ. Mbipụta stripe na pleats na-agbakwụnye ihe ndanda anya nke na-akwado mmetụta mma ahụ. A na-eji ajị anụ dị fee, ọwụ, na wool crepe maka oge mmiri na oge okpomọkụ.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha

Flatter Your Body Primary Function: Nchịkọta Uwe Ụmụ Nwaanyị meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị dị n'ọkwa kachasị elu, mara mma ma na-eju anya. Ndị meriri na Ọlaọcha bụ ọrụ na-egbu maramara nke ukwuu ma dị oke nzụlite nke na-egosi ọmarịcha ihe ọmụma, talent na nghọta nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Flatter Your Body Primary Function: Nchịkọta Uwe Ụmụ Nwaanyị ga-abụ ọrụ dị ịtụnanya, ihe nlereanya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị omimi n'ihe ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha bụ ihe e mepụtara dị oke ịrịba ama, nke a na-eto nke na-erite uru ma na-ebuga oke nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ n'ihu. Flatter Your Body Primary Function: Nchịkọta Uwe Ụmụ Nwaanyị bụ ihe e kere eke ọtụtụ ndị na-ekwo ekworo ya nke na-akpali ọchịchọ, na-eweta mmetụta ọma ma na-akpali ịtụnanya.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The looks are created with the initial idea to embrace all the different body types. The collection consists of a new revamped version of corsets that were originally discomforting to wear. The silhouette is a bit loose and it can be adjusted depending on your body shape with the lacing straps. In each look, multiple straps are placed around the bust, waist, and hips, which allows you to flatter your body figure by tightening and loosening the straps partially.
Dimensions & Packaging: The whole collection is 6 looks womenswear, size 0-6.
Tags: Optical illusion, Stripe, Corset, Asymmetricity, Embracement
Production Technology: The placement of fabric in each garment also resembles the X-ray of a human body. For example, light and dark blue colored fabrics are layered and patched together, and black is used on the side. Layered items are also presented in the look. As the garments are for the Spring/ Summer season, light wool, cotton, and wool crepe are mainly used. The silhouette is a bit loose and it can be adjusted depending on your body shape with the lacing straps. In each look, multiple straps are placed around the bust, waist, and hips, which allows you to flatter your body figure by tightening and loosening the straps partially. The optical illusion is an additional method that is used to maximize the effect of flattering, and stripe print and pleats are the elements to create the effect. The straps will also create movement in each look, and it will add the effect of optical illusion. The asymmetrical length and unbalanced detail elements will boost the aesthetic.
Design Challenge: The main challenge of this journey was to create the right silhouette and garment construction that resembles a corset but still provide comfort by placing straps at the right place to create the looks that flatter your body shape. Thus, the fabric selection was the most important decision since it resulted in totally different silhouettes depending on fabrics.
Research: The project aims to transform fashion into a non-stereotypical medium, which is used as a tool to help people to express who they are and not to be judged based on what society incorrectly portrays. By the "Beauty Standard" that social media portrays, consumers are being judged by their external looks only.
Inspiration: There exists a desire in human nature to attract and impress by any means necessary and this has been a long-standing goal throughout the history of fashion. A plethora of methods has been employed to achieve this goal. Some of those methods aimed to accentuate, conceal, or even alter the human body shape, but it often results in physical discomfort. Historically, the corset has been developed to satisfy human's goal to flatter the different body figures to fit the "beauty standard" of the era.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2019 and finished in August 2020 in Atlanta, USA.
Operation Flow: The looks can transform the shapes by how much you tighten the straps on the body and where you place the straps depending on the silhouette you want to draw around your body.
Patents: Copyright to Yunji Lee
Image Credits: COPYRIGHT by Yunji Lee,
Photographer, Skye Lin / Model, Allison Head, 2020