The Opposite 니트웨어 컬렉션 by Yishu Yan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 은상 in 패션, 의류 및 의복 디자인 Competition Category.

은패션· 2024

The Opposite 니트웨어 컬렉션

by Yishu Yan

A' Design Award 은상 Winner in 패션 Category

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The Design

About The Opposite 니트웨어 컬렉션

디 오포짓(The Opposite)은 다양한 방식으로 착용할 수 있도록 디자인된 유니섹스 니트웨어 컬렉션이다. 제로 컷(zero-cut) 및 제로 웨이스트(zero-waste) 방식으로 제작되어 버려지는 원단이 전혀 없다. 디지털 니팅 기법을 활용해 유연한 입체 구조와 변형 가능한 의복 구성을 구현했다. 두 벌의 아웃핏을 이루는 아이템들은 서로 교체하고 다양한 조합으로 매치할 수 있어, 착용자가 저마다의 개성 있는 스타일을 연출할 수 있다. 올사이즈 디자인으로 평균 체형의 대부분 사람에게 잘 맞는다. 디 오포짓은 남성복과 여성복에 대한 통념에 질문을 던진다.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 은상

The Opposite 니트웨어 컬렉션, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 은상 수상작으로, 최상급이며 아름답고 인상적인 디자인에 수여되는 비범하게 권위 있는 인정입니다. 은상 수상작은 대단히 뛰어나고 매우 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 탁월한 전문 지식, 재능, 통찰력을 보여 줍니다. The Opposite 니트웨어 컬렉션, 이 작품은 훌륭한 대표작으로서 매우 전문적이고 깊이 있게 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 은상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 경계를 넓히는 데 이바지하는 주목할 만하고 찬사를 받는 발명품입니다. The Opposite 니트웨어 컬렉션, 이 작품은 모두가 부러워하는 창작물로서 욕망을 일깨우고 긍정적인 감정을 불러오며 경탄과 경이로움을 불러일으킵니다.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: "The Opposite", a unisex fashion knitwear collection, aims to create a new concept of modern garments with multiple wearing methods. It features the zero-cut, zero-waste, highly adaptable, flexible wearability and longevity of the design through highlighting sustainable design thinking and digital design attributes. The stylish items in the two outfits can be easily interchanged and matched. Rather than focusing on providing a figurative silhouette or identity, the collection is more concerned with the inclusion of the product to the user. It intends to explore the process of confrontation and cooperation between contradictory elements through the development of flexible knitted structures and changeable garment constructions, questioning the common notions of men's and women's wear, and Eastern and Western clothing.
Dimensions & Packaging: This garment is an all-size design and will fit most people of average build.
Tags: Fashion Design, Knitwear, Multiple Wearing Methods, Unisex Design, Digital Knitting, Sustainable Design, Zero-waste, Zero-cut, Adaptative Design
Production Technology: This project was essentially completed in Hong Kong, China in 2019. Relevant research for design development has been published in Science Citation Index journals and obtained a China Utility Model Patent. The collection has been exhibited at the Asian Art Museum, in San Francisco, USA. Research related to the design project is being continued.
Design Challenge: The special three-dimensional knitted structure shows a unique surface texture effect and deformation ability, but it also creates a problem for the composition and relative stability of the garment structure. This is both a challenge and an opportunity. This flexible and versatile nature provides unlimited possibilities for the continuous development of this design.
Research: This design research is exploratory and practice-led in nature. The proposed design offers a new approach to innovative fashion that integrates surface design and construction design through a digital knitting process, which bridges the gap between modern knitting technology and fashion design. Textile structural research-led design allows clothing design to be no longer limited by the inherent framework, i.e., gender, identity, etc., but rather to look back at the matter of wearing itself, i.e. the interaction between clothing and the body. Both objective and subjective evaluation were involved. The results of a series of performance tests have evolved into serval formulas and a design database that provide quantifiable and predicate criteria for upcoming designs.
Inspiration: The inspiration comes from the visiting experience of the AUDIO ARCHITECTURE exhibition at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo, Japan. There was one unique exhibit in the exhibition a special song. The song's lyrics present various contradictory words, such as structure and surface, chaos and order, sound and silence, to discuss the dynamic relationship between audio and architecture. It inspires me that, many items seem the opposite, such as artificial and natural, body and soul, or, knit and purl, however, are they opposites? Or are they an ultimate whole? As a Chinese idiom says "Seek common ground while reserving differences". This point of view may offer one possible approach for global humanity to face the contemporary dilemma of the post-epidemic era.
Project Duration: This project was essentially completed in Hong Kong, China in 2019. Relevant research for design development has been published in Science Citation Index journals and obtained a China Utility Model Patent. The collection has been exhibited at the Asian Art Museum, in San Francisco, USA.
Operation Flow: The identity of both the designer and the user in this design is fluid. The designer plays as also a researcher and an engineer, involved in all aspects of design, development, and production. Meanwhile, the stylish items of the collection can be easily interchanged and re-matched, thus the user is encouraged to re-generate his/her style continuously. The essential concept determines the interaction of this design is always in a dynamic process of development and innovation.
Team Members: Academic adviser: Kinor Jiang & Jinyun Zhou
Image Credits: Image #1-5: Photographer: Joseph, Raysee Media/ Model: Sofia Korobova