Alternative Mofuta oa Liaparo o se nang Bong by Yu Pei Kuo

Alternative Mofuta oa Liaparo o se nang Bong by Yu Pei Kuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Feshene, Diaparo le Mese Competition Category.

TšepeFeshene· 2021

Alternative Mofuta oa Liaparo o se nang Bong

by Yu Pei Kuo

Client: Alternative

Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award Winner in Feshene Category

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The Design

About Alternative Mofuta oa Liaparo o se nang Bong

Alternative ke pokello ea liaparo tse sa khethollang bong e nang le lintho tse leshome le tse 'nè, ho kenyeletsoa liaparo tsa ka holimo, tsa ka tlase le tsa ka ntle. Pokello ena e bululetsoe ke liaparo tsa boholo-holo tse sa khethollang bong tse tsoang meetlong ea Bophirima le Bochabela, joalo ka chiton ea Segerike, tunic ea Seroma, shenyi ea Sechaena le jongkraben ea Thai. Ntho e 'ngoe le e 'ngoe e sebelisa likhokahano tse feto-fetohang, lisebelisoa le ho mena, e le hore ho lekana ho ka lokisoa ho ea ka'mele a fapaneng. Liaparo tsena li bontšoa ka 'meleng ea banna le basali. Morero hase ho pata 'mele, empa ke ho ferekanya meeli e tsitsitseng ea moaparo le ho tšehetsa boitsebiso ba motho ka boeena.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award

Alternative Mofuta oa Liaparo o se nang Bong ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang e fuoang meralo e metle e finyellang litlhoko tsa porofeshenale le tsa indasteri tse lebelletsoeng ho lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse entsoeng hantle. Bahapi ba Tšepe ba bontša bokhoni bo boholo, bokhethehi bo phahameng, kutloisiso ea litsebi le bokhoni ba boqapi ba baqapi ba bona. Alternative Mofuta oa Liaparo o se nang Bong e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlahisitsoeng e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e sebetsang le e nang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa ea indasteri mme o na le litšobotsi tsa theknoloji tse nang le bokhoni tse amanang le tsebo le talenta. Ka lebaka la botlalo ba eona, Alternative Mofuta oa Liaparo o se nang Bong e tšoanelehela tlhompho mme e entsoe ho fana ka ntlafatso ea bophelo e thusang ho etsa hore lefatše le be sebaka se molemo.

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
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Image #5: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021