Argento Moda · 2023
Zen Explorer Collezione di abbigliamento maschile
by Kuan Lu
- A' Design Award d'Argento 2023 in Moda
- CLIENT: Lu Kuan
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 105,780
- Verification code 6DAD3954F6 · Verify this award
Colors
About Zen Explorer Collezione di abbigliamento maschile
Zen Explorer è una collezione di abbigliamento maschile realizzata con tessuti antichi e stoffe tinte naturalmente. I tessuti storici vengono raccolti e selezionati per dimensione, spessore e stagione, quindi combinati con nuovi materiali tinti secondo il metodo tradizionale dell'indaco. L'indaco è prodotto attraverso la fermentazione, senza sostanze chimiche industriali. Gran parte del lavoro è svolto a mano, così da preservare l'artigianato e i motivi tradizionali. La collezione unisce il tessuto antico all'upcycling contemporaneo e propone capi quotidiani durevoli e unici.
About the A' Design Award d'Argento
Zen Explorer Collezione di abbigliamento maschile ha vinto l'A' Design Award d'Argento, un riconoscimento enormemente prestigioso conferito a design di fascia alta, splendidi e impressionanti. I vincitori d'Argento sono opere tremendamente brillanti ed estremamente creative che illustrano l'eccezionale competenza, il talento e l'acume dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Zen Explorer Collezione di abbigliamento maschile sia un'opera meravigliosa, una vetrina di eccellenza, notevolmente professionale e profondamente innovativa. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award d'Argento è un'invenzione molto notevole e ammirata che giova ai confini dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia e li fa avanzare. Zen Explorer Collezione di abbigliamento maschile è una creazione molto invidiata che evoca desideri, porta sentimenti positivi e accende meraviglia e stupore.
Press Kit
- 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
- Image Credits
- WU (ZhiWu) by Lu Kuan
Photographer: Yang Feng
Model:Li Ming
