Alternative Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi Yasiyo na Jinsia by Yu Pei Kuo

Alternative Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi Yasiyo na Jinsia by Yu Pei Kuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Mitindo, Mavazi na Nguo Competition Category.

ChumaMitindo· 2021

Alternative Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi Yasiyo na Jinsia

by Yu Pei Kuo

Client: Alternative

Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award Winner in Mitindo Category

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The Design

About Alternative Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi Yasiyo na Jinsia

Alternative ni mkusanyiko wa mavazi yasiyo na jinsia wenye vipengele kumi na vinne, ikiwemo mavazi ya juu, ya chini na ya nje. Mkusanyiko huu umeongozwa na mavazi ya kale yasiyobagua jinsia kutoka tamaduni za Magharibi na Mashariki, kama vile chiton ya Kigiriki, tuniki ya Kirumi, shenyi ya Kichina na jongkraben ya Kitailandi. Kila kipengele kinatumia miunganisho inayonyumbulika, vifaa na ukunjaji, ili muundo uweze kurekebishwa kulingana na miili tofauti. Mavazi haya yanaonyeshwa kwenye miili ya wanaume na wanawake. Lengo si kuficha mwili bali kufifisha mipaka thabiti ya mavazi na kuunga mkono utambulisho binafsi.

The Recognition

About the Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award

Alternative Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi Yasiyo na Jinsia ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima unaotolewa kwa miundo mizuri inayokidhi mahitaji ya kitaalamu na ya kiviwanda yanayotarajiwa kutoka kwa kazi zilizobuniwa vizuri. Washindi wa Chuma huonyesha ustadi mkubwa, utaalamu wa hali ya juu, uelewa wa kitaalamu na uwezo wa kibunifu wa waumbaji wao. Alternative Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi Yasiyo na Jinsia inatarajiwa kuwa kazi inayothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambayo ni ya vitendo na bunifu. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora za tasnia na una sifa za kiufundi zenye uwezo zilizounganishwa na ujuzi na kipaji. Alternative Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi Yasiyo na Jinsia inaheshimiwa kwa uangalifu wake na imebuniwa kutoa maboresho ya ubora wa maisha yanayosaidia kuufanya ulimwengu kuwa mahali bora zaidi.

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
Image #2: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
Image #3: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
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Image #5: Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021