Alternative ジェンダーレス・ファッションコレクション by Yu Pei Kuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in ファッション・アパレル・衣服デザイン Competition Category.
鉄ファッション· 2021
Alternative ジェンダーレス・ファッションコレクション
by Yu Pei Kuo
Client: Alternative
A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in ファッション Category
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About Alternative ジェンダーレス・ファッションコレクション
Alternativeは、トップス、ボトムス、アウターを含む14点で構成されるジェンダーレスなファッションコレクションである。ギリシャのキトン、ローマのチュニック、中国の深衣、タイのチョンクラベンなど、東西の文化に伝わる古代のユニセックス衣装から着想を得ている。各アイテムには可変的な接続構造、素材、折り重ねの手法が用いられ、さまざまな体型に合わせてフィット感を調整できる。衣服は男性と女性の身体の双方に着用させて提示される。その意図は身体を隠すことではなく、固定化された装いの境界を曖昧にし、自己のアイデンティティを支えることにある。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鉄賞
Alternative ジェンダーレス・ファッションコレクションは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Alternative ジェンダーレス・ファッションコレクションは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Alternative ジェンダーレス・ファッションコレクションは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The genderless collection project inspires Western and Eastern ancient unisex attires to gain flexible design ideas to melt into modern genderless fashion design—each item of the project design with flexibility as the solution to adjust the fitting with the different body. The collection titled "ALTERNATIVE" signs public the genderless concept, not hiding gender body but free the standard gender fashion blurs the boundary as another choice to enable self-identity.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The collection contains 14 items to match different outfits with freedom, including tops, bottoms, and outwears. Each item design in reasonable dimensions under the width 500 mm X Height 200mm.
- Tags
- genderless fashion, ancient attire, flexible design, adjustment
- Production Technology
- Flexible connections, materials, and folding.
- Design Challenge
- Since being a student who studies fashion, the two standard pattern design methods, prototype and drapping, need to define the gender in advance to continue the design process. Although the research study and inspire the prototype from the ancient unisex attires, it is difficult to avoid the old design thinking but abandon the gender limitation. However, throughout a few rounds of the design experiment and modify the design thinking and process to melt the genderless concept and flexible design to fit with different gender one item design.
- Research
- The practical research explores a genderless collection wearable fitting with both gender bodies in one item with a flexible design that inspires from Western and Eastern ancient unisex attires. This study applies analyzing method to identify history, modernization, structure, and wearable skills to develop the practical experiment and melt various flexible designs with ancient costume prototypes to modernizes the collection. The genderless concept, not hiding body but free the standard gendered fashion to enable self-identity.
- Inspiration
- The genderless collection project inspires from the ancient unisex attires during the periods that gender and costume without a strong connection. Moreover, take the view from western to eastern culture, the project collects four ancient unisex attires of Greek Chiton, Roma Tunic, China Shenyi, and Thai Jongkraben. Throughout the analysis and comparison of the prototype, wearable skill, silhouette, features, materials to gain the ideas to melt into modern genderless fashion design.
- Project Duration
- The project started in August 2019 in Bangkok and finished in August 2020 in Bangkok, and was exhibited in Bangkok in September 2020 and Taipei in December 2020. The collection was also invited to present in the “Taipei Da-Dao-Cheng International Fashion Showcase”. The collection has been selected in “2021 Bangkok Design Week” and will exhibit in Bangkok in May 2021.
- Operation Flow
- The genderless collection project gains the idea of flexibility to fit with the different gender bodies. Each item of the project was designed with different flexibility to adjust to fit with different bodies, such as connection, materials, and folding prototype. The genderless project presents the garments on male and female bodies to show the various conditions that discovering the genderless concept not to hide gender body but blur the boundary to free the standard gender fashion.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
Image #2: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
Image #3: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
Image #4: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
Image #5: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
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