Ouro Moda · 2023
Blue Ants Coleção de Vestuário
by Yi Yin
- A' Design Award de Ouro 2023 in Moda
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- Verification code FBD682C5B7 · Verify this award
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About Blue Ants Coleção de Vestuário
Blue Ants é uma coleção de vestuário criada a partir da transformação de peças antigas. Os tecidos em azul-escuro provêm de macacões de trabalho azuis, e os padrões decorativos inspiram-se em senhas de racionamento alimentar históricas. As estampas são produzidas com fotografia em cianotipia, na qual a luz solar substitui a máquina de impressão. O corte a laser confere ao tecido um efeito bidimensional e tridimensional que acompanha as curvas do corpo. A silhueta clássica do macacão é torcida e amarrada. A coleção é oferecida em tamanhos variáveis.
About the A' Design Award de Ouro
Blue Ants Coleção de Vestuário conquistou o A' Design Award de Ouro, um reconhecimento imensamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de primeira linha, maravilhosos e notáveis. Os vencedores do Ouro são criações extremamente inovadoras, visionárias e glamorosamente deslumbrantes, que refletem o prodígio, a sabedoria e a proeza dos seus designers. Espera-se que Blue Ants Coleção de Vestuário seja uma invenção muito elogiada, pioneira e monumental, que oferece um valor sem precedentes. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ouro é um projeto espetacular e respeitado, que beneficia muito e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Blue Ants Coleção de Vestuário cria sentimentos intensos de desejo, evoca paixão, incentiva a criatividade e fascina-nos.
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- Unique Properties
- This project focuses on fashion and textile design using old clothes transformation, cyanotype photography and laser cutting. The designer hopes to connect the unique political function of clothing and break the stereotypes of the old times. In terms of materials, the designer has tried a variety of interdisciplinary textile design methods, striving to design clothing that is both environmentally friendly and fashionable.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Variable sizes
- Tags
- Fashion, Textile, Sustainable, Cyanotype, Design
- Production Technology
- All the redesigned dark blue fabrics in this project come from the old blue overalls during the Cultural Revolution. In addition, this project also used food stamps that were exclusive during the Cultural Revolution period to develop my design because the patterns and curves on them to be quite beautiful and attractive. Moreover,the laser-cut fabric has both a two-dimensional and three-dimensional transformation effect that follows the undulations and curves of the body.
In addition, in order to restore the sense of time during the Cultural Revolution and maintain the concept of sustainability, the prints in the Blue ants are all done using cyanotype photography. The traditional printing machine is replaced by sunlight to produce a unique printing and dyeing effect. - Design Challenge
- Laser cutting was the hardest part of this project as it is challenging to find a suitable fabric. Because some fabrics are too soft to reveal the cut graphics, while others are too hard to make clothes.
- Research
- This project was integrated the printing methods of visual communication design, cyanotype photography, and other techniques to complete my fabrics. The project also used a projector to assist me in the design of the silhouette. The designer intended to twist and bind the classic silhouette of blue overallsto disrupt the Cultural Revolution when everyone wore the same clothing.
- Inspiration
- Blue ants, was inspired by the famous historical event in China, the "Cultural Revolution". During this decade, people regardless of gender and age, completely spontaneously wore uniform blue overalls, so they were called “blue ants” by people in other countries. During this decade, clothing no longer only has the function of keeping warm, but has completely become a political tools of fanaticism and blind obedience.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2022 in Jinan,China and finished in November 2022 in Jinan,China.
- Operation Flow
- The laser-cut fabric has both a two-dimensional and three-dimensional translation effect that follows the undulations and curves of the body.
- Image Credits
- Copyright by Yi Yin,
Image #1: Photographer Yihao Huang，2022
Image #2: Photographer Yihao Huang，2022
Image #3: Photographer Yihao Huang，2022
Image #4: Photographer Yihao Huang，2022
Image #5: Photographer Yihao Huang，2022
Model: Wenxue Meng，2022
