Gangsa Desain Kostum · 2026
Foam of Desire Primary Function: Desain Pakaian
by Kaiqi Zhang
- A' Design Award Gangsa 2026 in Desain Kostum
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,383
- Verification code 3E813B933A · Verify this award
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About Foam of Desire Primary Function: Desain Pakaian
Book Text: Badasa ka kritik tantang kainginan jo kakosongan nan manjadi ciri konsumerisme modern, karya ko mamakai desain pakaian untuak manyalidiki kainsanan nan tumbuah di dalam kakayoan material. Karya ko mambayangkan baliak pakaian bangsawan abaik ka tujuah baleh, mambantuak kain nan dapek dibantuak manjadi siluet nan ranum nan maniru tubuah nan dimakan dek kainginan. Paduan warna biru turkis, nan basintuah jo merah jambu manih sarato hijau kakuning-kuningan nan manyangsiakan, manciptokan efek nan sacaro sapintas manawan tapi sangaik manggalisahan di dalamnyo. Katagangan ko mangajak panonton untuak mamikiakan hakikaik dari kainginan.
About the A' Design Award Gangsa
Foam of Desire Primary Function: Desain Pakaian adolah pamenang A' Design Award Gangsa, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan cemerlang nan dicirikan dek kreativitas, kacerdikan jo kabijaksanaan. Pamenang Gangsa adolah karya nan cukuik mahir jo kreatif sacaro mangesankan nan mamastikan pangalaman nan luas, imajinasi jo kacerdikan parancangnyo. Foam of Desire Primary Function: Desain Pakaian dipaokan manjadi bando nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan profesional jo inovatif sacaro nampak. Rancangan nan manang Gangsa iko mamuek praktik tabaik dalam seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi jo cemerlang dalam parhatian ka rincian. Foam of Desire Primary Function: Desain Pakaian mamanuhi kaparluan jo elok, manyantuah karinduan, mamikaik parasaan jo manarik raso ingin tahu.
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- Unique Properties
- Inspired by Epicure Mammon from The Alchemist, this piece reimagines European aristocratic attire from the 17th century to question the concept of decadent luxury. Using a specially engineered moldable fabric, the garment swells into a bloated silhouette reminiscent of bubbles, evoking bodies consumed by desires. Vivid turquoise blue and pink create a visual allure that is both jarring and seductive, with a sugary quality that prompts viewers to reflect on overconsumption and inner emptiness.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- approximately 175 centimeters high, 140 centimeters wide and 80 centimeters deep
- Tags
- Clothing Design, Materializing Desires, Material Experimentation, Visual Metaphor, Irregular Forms, Visual Tension
- Production Technology
- A specially engineered moldable fabric, adhesive when wet, allows for intuitive hand sculpting of volumetric forms. By laminating foam into the fabric and injecting air, this approach creates irregular organic bubbles with a unique hybrid texture, which is both translucent and semi rigid. When illuminated, these forms look like a second skin, materializing the concept of internal collapse festering beneath a surface of opulence.
- Design Challenge
- The key challenge was to lead viewers from visual seduction to psychological unease, and the answer lay in color use. A rational turquoise blue base is invaded by lush pink accents that embody swelling desires, while traces of sickly yellowish green underneath hint at decay and exposure. The contrast between high saturation and low brightness, paired with matte and pearly finishes, creates a tension between a sweet appearance and hidden unease, turning initial allure into disquieting reflection.
- Research
- This work critiques the consumerist era by framing its core maladies: swelling desires and inner voids. Using the structure of seventeenth century aristocratic attire, the piece presents bloated, bubble like forms that symbolize a body consumed by insatiable desires. Jarring color combinations then guide viewers from visual seduction to psychological disquiet, ultimately revealing the spiritual barrenness hidden behind a luxurious facade.
- Inspiration
- This piece takes its cue from Epicure Mammon, an embodiment of insatiable desires in the play The Alchemist. It deconstructs the symbolic language of seventeenth century aristocratic attire to pose a question about beauty in excess. Each element becomes a visual narrative around the body, speaking of desires that swell, promises that prove false, and the inescapable reality of decay.
- Project Duration
- The project commenced in October 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The initial toile was completed in December 2023, and the project concluded in March 2024 with the completion of the final garment.
- Operation Flow
- This work redefines clothing from a mere covering for the body into an aggressive entity that devours it. The doublet, with its dramatically exaggerated chest and shoulders, achieves a swollen, voluptuous contour that makes inner desires visibly manifest in the flesh. The asymmetrically reshaped ruff collar, when illuminated, casts an encircling shadow, mirroring the confinement in a prison built from greed and vanity.
