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Cynthia Gomez Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Turandot Armor Costume in Costume and Heritage Wear Design
Cynthia Gomez honored for costume and heritage wear design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Costume and Heritage Wear Design category for Turandot Armor Costume by Cynthia Gomez. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Turandot Armor Costume
The costume industry generates pieces that become obsolete when the season ends, because they can rarely be used again. So, of this problem was that a sustainable costume project was proposed, which present a design for an operatic outfit using sustainable techniques such as upcycling with knitting deadstock and a creation of biomaterials made from orange waste based on the circular economy. The project seeks to reuse existing materials and develop new materials in order to counteract pollution in fashion.
About Cynthia Gomez
Graduate in Textile Design, master’s in business administration, she studied fashion marketing, lifestyle trends, sustainable fashion, and textile experimentation at Central Saint Martin’s School She has received recognition as the best designer and is considered one of the 50 successful women in Mexico by the Expansión group and the Universal newspaper. She founded her studio in 1996, in which she designs her homonym brand, which has specialized in knitted textiles for Fashion and Home, her style characterized by the richness of his colors. She has participate within Fashion Week México, Desfila and Días de Moda platforms for more than 10 seasons.
Award Record
Cynthia Gomez is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Costume and Heritage Wear Design Award
The A' Costume Design Award is an international costume design competition recognizing outstanding costume creations by the world's most talented costume designers. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to stylists, fashion houses, costume designers and fashion designers from all countries. Typical entries include theatrical costumes, fantasy wear, cosplay gowns, historical clothing, kimonos and saris. The awarded costume designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/costume
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/160475
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/160475
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!160475
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/319473
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.cynthiagomez.mx/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Turandot Armor Costume
- Function
- Costume
- Category
- Costume and Heritage Wear Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Fashion and Arts
- Colors
- Black, Maroon and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Cynthia Gomez
- Country
- Mexico
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #160475
Credits
- Image Credits
- Opcional; photographer Silvetre García, hairdesigner Ignazio Muñoz, makeup artist Enrique Santana Video Credits: Cynthia Gómez
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In each production the costume industry generates pieces for each character and at the end these become obsolete because they can rarely be used again It was from this problem that this sustainable costume project emerged, which proposes the design of an operatic outfit using sustainable techniques such as upcycling and the creation of biomaterials made from orange waste The project seeks to reuse existing materials and develop new materials in order to counteract pollution in fashion
- Inspiration
- The costume is inspired by Giacomo Puccini's Turandot opera, which symbolizes the princess's self-confinement in the face of interpersonal relationships, which is why her face is covered with an immense neck that protects her from love. An Upcycling tecnique was used with the patch-working, reusing textile waste to give it a second life. In the same way, an armor made with substrate biomaterials from the orange waste, represents the sentimental barriers of Princess Turandot.
- Research
- We sought to impact the costume industry through sustainability and innovation, the piece was for an opera singer which implied movement and comfort. We use design thinking for our research, doing interviews, searching for sustainable materials and technology that would help us Regarding biomaterials we experimented with many fruit substrates up to orange peel, which has the best properties. As for the dress, we had many fittings to see the feasibility in terms of weight, structure and comfort so that she could perform.
- Challenge
- the hardest part of the design was the funcionality of the project, with the upcycling tecnique using knitting deadstock, and the elaboration of the formula with the orange sustrat in the biomaterial.
- Realization and Technology
- For the armor, the circular economy theory was used, taking advantage of orange peel waste for the production of biomaterials, made with gelatin, glycerin and the orange substrate. The dress was made from reusing deadstock knitted fabric, using the quilting technique to generate the patches and color gradient in the piece, everything was handmade.
- Operation and Interaction
- is a costume so it can be exhibit in a display maniqui.
- Project Duration and Location
- started en january 2022 in Mexico City and finished in july 2022
- Specifications
- the dress knitting mesure 80mm x 10mm x 180mm the armor biomaterial mesure 60 mm x 5mm x 50mm
- Keywords
- biomaterial, upcycling, deadstock, sustainability, costume design
