V Vissi Kohinga Kākahu by Vickie Au is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Parahi in Hoahoa Hua Toitū, Kaupapa me te Hoahoa Kākāriki Competition Category.

ParahiHua Toitū· 2021

V Vissi Kohinga Kākahu

by Vickie Au

Client: V VISSI : revisit

A' Design Award Parahi Winner in Hua Toitū Category

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Colors

The Design

About V Vissi Kohinga Kākahu

Ko V Vissi he kohinga kākahu toitū e whakaaturia ana i roto i ngā raupapa e toru. Ko te raupapa tuatahi, Ngā Tāwhanga, e whakamahi anō ana i ngā toenga kaka mai i ngā pukapuka tauira mira hei hanga i tētahi koti mō ngā tāne me ngā wāhine. Ko te raupapa tuarua, Te Ähua o te Kākāriki, e whakahou ana i ngā tauira whanaketanga me ngā tauira tuatahi mai i ngā kaihanga kākahu, ā, ka taea te mau i ētahi kākahu i ngā huarahi e rua, e toru rānei. Ko te raupapa tuatoru, Te Kōrero Kaka, e whakamahi ana i ngā kaka kounga tiketike, kua whakaūngia mai i Hapani me Itāria. He mamati te tā, e whakamahi ana i te waituhi pirau-māmā. Ka hangaia ngā kākahu i runga i te tono kia whakaiti i te para taonga rāhui, me te tautoko i tētahi pūnaha kākahu porowhita.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Parahi

Ko V Vissi Kohinga Kākahu te toa o te A' Design Award Parahi, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke e tohua ana mā te auaha, te mahi mōhio me te whakaaro hōhonu. Ko ngā toa Parahi he mahi pukenga e rite ana, he auaha mīharo, e whakatūturu ana i te wheako nui, te whakaaro me te mōhio-ā-ringa o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko V Vissi Kohinga Kākahu he taonga whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he ngaio, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Parahi e whakauru ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa i te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau, ā, he tino mīharo ki ngā taipitopito. Ka whakatutuki a V Vissi Kohinga Kākahu i ngā hiahia, ka pā ki ngā hiahia, ka whakaoho i ngā kare-ā-roto, ā, ka kume i te pākiki.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This collection aims to co-created with the professional, fashion & apparel stakeholders to design and customize sustainable and ethical products. We believe dress better to unite our community and start something meaningful. We are conscious about style and totally committed to making fashion for good.
Sustainable fashion is a process of fostering change to fashion products and what we are doing is a new prospective to the fashion system. We believe that sustainable initiatives are the key to bring positive impacts in making a better environment to the community and world.
Three series of merchandise to response and evolve the fashion system from Linear Economy to circular economy.
The series I is called Hangers, which is collaborating with different supplier and using their high-end brunch book fabric to redesign and let consumer to experience the good quality material / fabric in a more customized way.
The series IIis called Shade of Green, which is collaborating with different high quality standard manufacturers to co-create by using their stock to redesign and give the to every pieces of garment and let them to become a master pieces. We choose the factory who are making J Crew and Theory garment for this project.
The series III is called Fabric Story, which is exploring good quality fabric and material to let every season have the update of material to response the circular economy in an update and practical way.
Materials are chosen very carefully and sourced only from reputable suppliers. Most of the strategic partner with us are sharing the core value to support the sustainable fashion. Each piece is created, first and foremost, to bring something new, special, and lasting into the world. It is not just fashion as usual. In this era of sustainability clothes, we focus on true statement piece that tailored with strong lines and details, a androgynous personality, and a sense of quality that endures, season after season. Sustainability is an endeavor high on our agenda.
Dimensions & Packaging: Three series of merchandise to response and evolve the fashion system from Linear Economy to circular economy.
Series I – Hangers
Collaborating with different supplier. Using their high-end brunch book fabric and redesign to let consumer to experience the good quality material or fabric in a more customized way.
Series II, Shade of Green
Collaborating with different high quality standard manufacturers to cocreate by using their stock to redesign and give the to every pieces of garment and let them to become a master pieces. We choose the factory who are making J Crew and Theory garment for this project.
Series III, Fabric Story
We explore good quality fabric and material to let every season have the update of material to response the circular economy in an update and practical way.
Tags: sustainable, fashion, sustainability, good quality, BCI, Multi-styling, Luxury Fabric
Production Technology: Collection of sustainability
Three merchandise in different materials and garment making method to demonstrate the execution of collection in sustainable way.
Series I, Hangers
We collaborate with supply chain and collecting fabric brunch book from them. Using those leftover fabric swatch to upcycle and redesign. Having the connection with Lanificio F.lli Cerruti, dal 1881, we collected the fabric brunch book and redesign the signature unisex blazer.
Series II, Shade of Green
We co-create with the manufacturer, collecting their development samples or prototype, upcycling and redesign to give the garment second life or even a more beautiful signature pieces.
In addition, we apply the multi styling design to let garment can be fully utilized. Some of the garments are designed to wear more than 2 or 3 ways to extend their usage upon the user wearing it in different occasions.
We are also collaborating with Brother Hong Kong, using the GTX Garment Printer Machine with biodegradable ink to develop a series of upcycling product. Each style is upon the customer request to design and produce. Every pieces are design on demand to resolve the inventory problem. We were even helping client to recycling the used shirt and gave a new print on their plain shirt to give the second life of the garment.
Series III, Fabric Story
We choose better quality materials, even sustainable material with certificate. We used fabric from Japan and Italy this time. And, some of them with the certificate of BCI cotton.
Apart from the better quality material, all of our printed fabric are using Biodegradable Ink with the digital print method to solve the inventory and pollution problem when print the fabrics.
Research: Three merchandise in different materials and garment making method to demonstrate the execution of collection in sustainable way.
Series I – Hangers
Solution I - Collaborate with supply chain and collecting fabric brunch book from them. Using those leftover fabric swatch to upcycle and redesign. Having the connection with Lanificio F.lli Cerruti, dal 1881, we collected the fabric brunch book and redesign the signature unisex blazer.
Series II - Shade of Green
Solution II - Cocreate with the manufacturer, collecting their development samples or prototype, upcycling and redesign to give the garment second life or even a more beautiful signature pieces.
Solution III – Multi Styling Design. Some of the garments are designed to wear more than 2 or 3 ways to extend their usage upon the user wearing it in different occasions.
Solution IV – Collaborating with Brother (HK), using the GTX Garment Printer Machine with “Biodegradable Ink” to develop a series of upcycling product. Each style is upon the customer request to design and produce. Every pieces are design on demand to resolve the inventory problem. We were even helping client to recycling the used shirt and gave a new print on their plain shirt to give the second life of the garment.
Series III- Fabric Story
Solution V – Using better quality materials, even sustainable material with certificate. We used fabric from Japan and Italy this time. And, some of them with the certificate of BCI cotton.
Solution VI – Apart from the better quality material, all of our printed fabric are using Biodegradable Ink with the digital print method to solve the inventory and pollution problem when print the fabrics.
Inspiration: Fashion is the second most polluted industry in the world. The collection of sustainability is providing an option to the sustainable fashion conscious supporters with a fashionable, wearable and affordable designs. We target to bring fashion people to revisit the fashion industry in a sustainable approach.
Project Duration: The project had been started since the end of 2018. The collection had been launched at September 0f 2019 at Hong Kong CenterStage with the first fashion show to public which managed by Hong Kong Trade Development Council. The collection had been sent to Shanghai and presented at DFO international (multi label showroom) for 2 weeks. We got the international showroom, showroom, select shop and department store enquiries, such as Printemps/ Paris, Greyhound/ Paris, Lafayette/ Paris, Doors/New York but we didn’t launch even make mass production due to the covid 19.
Operation Flow: Three series of merchandise to response and evolve the fashion system from Linear Economy to circular economy.
Series I – Hangers / Collaborating with different supplier. Using their high-end brunch book fabric and redesign to let consumer to experience the good quality material / fabric in a more customized way.
Series II – Shade of Green / Collaborating with different high quality standard manufacturers to cocreate by using their stock to redesign and give the to every pieces of garment and let them to become a master pieces. We choose the factory who are making J Crew and Theory garment for this project.
Series III – Fabric Story / We explore good quality fabric and material to let every season have the update of material to response the circular economy in an update and practical way.
Patents: V VISSI with the certificate of registration of trade mark in Hong Kong under the owner of Vickie AU.
Image Credits: All photos: Photographer/ William Law All Photos: Models/ Under A1M Model Agency Management. All Designs: Under V Vissi with the IP registration.