Zen Explorer Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi ya Wanaume by Kuan Lu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Mitindo, Mavazi na Nguo Competition Category.
FedhaMitindo· 2023
Zen Explorer Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi ya Wanaume
by Kuan Lu
Client: Lu Kuan
Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award Winner in Mitindo Category
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The Design
About Zen Explorer Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi ya Wanaume
Zen Explorer ni mkusanyiko wa mavazi ya wanaume uliotengenezwa kwa vitambaa vya kale na vitambaa vilivyotiwa rangi asilia. Vitambaa vya kihistoria hukusanywa na kupangwa kulingana na ukubwa, unene na msimu, kisha huunganishwa na nyenzo mpya zilizotiwa rangi kwa mbinu ya jadi ya indigo. Rangi ya indigo hutengenezwa kupitia uchachushaji, bila kemikali za viwandani. Sehemu kubwa ya kazi hufanywa kwa mikono, hivyo ufundi wa jadi na mifumo ya kitamaduni huhifadhiwa. Mkusanyiko huu huunganisha vitambaa vya zamani na urejeleaji bunifu wa kisasa, na hutoa mavazi ya kila siku yenye kudumu na ya kipekee.
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award
Zen Explorer Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi ya Wanaume ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa ya ajabu unaotolewa kwa miundo ya hali ya juu kabisa, ya kupendeza na ya kuvutia. Washindi wa Fedha ni kazi zinazong'aa mno na bunifu kupita kiasi zinazoonyesha utaalamu bora, kipaji na busara ya wabunifu wao. Zen Explorer Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi ya Wanaume inatarajiwa kuwa kazi nzuri ya kuigwa ambayo ni ya kitaalamu kwa kiasi kikubwa na yenye ubunifu wa kina. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Fedha ya A' Design Award ni uvumbuzi unaojulikana sana na kupendwa, unaonufaisha na kupanua mipaka ya sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia. Zen Explorer Mkusanyiko wa Mavazi ya Wanaume ni kazi inayotamaniwa mno inayochochea hamu, huleta hisia chanya na huzua mshangao na mastaajabu.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This project "The Tao of Fashion: Re-cycle of Life" aims to subvert the stereotype of fashion industry. The methodology is to collect and classify the historic textiles initially, and incorporate the new material dyed by the traditional "Indigo Dyeing" technique. This project keeps all the craftsmanship handmade to respect and retain the traditional crafts and graphics, and incorporate contemporary upcycle design concepts, which could carry on the traditional oriental cultural and bring daily dressing code updated, durable and unique.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The concept item is an artistic wearable item that can be used, and be an artistic installation displaying by hanging. The prototype structure of a suit grows out of the original antique "Hundred Sons" blanket.
Width 180 cm Length 200 cm
All ready-to-wear looks are size 48 male form. - Tags
- Timeless, Clothing, Cultural heritage, Sustainable fashion, Recycle,Experimental
- Production Technology
- Mainly using mass-produced natural indigo dyed materials, combined with a small amount of precious recycled textile which is vintage pieces.
The unique essence and the production process have ethical considerations and sustainable fashion development. The indigo produced by R&D (ethical production&sustainable fashion) can only be realized through fermentation. The manufacturing process is natural and environmentally friendly without industrial chemicals. The importance of material recycling is also an important purpose of design and production. - Design Challenge
- The concept and practice of this project challenge is about the development of sustainable fashion and the inheritance of slow handwork. Ideas on how design thinking can create original and unique products for balancing sustainable fashion industry and new aesthetic market.
- Research
- According to material properties, each piece of material has its unique "character". The method of classifying materials is combined with scale, thickness, and season to develop, mix with the new materials to make a design experiment of slow fashion and limited supply. Specifically, the collected antique fabric is used as a clue to develop the design system. How fashion can continue to be sustainable while taking into account creation, and a balanced combination of creating less waste and durability. It is a sustainable and contemporary fashion practice.
- Inspiration
- The design is inspired by exploring the depths of blue.
Indigo textile culture with a long history, blue is the ocean, the universe, and the central mind. Natural reincarnation is the exploration of Zen, and it is also a sustainable fashion practice in the present. From a point of view that old and new, gain and loss, useless and useful, trend and eternity are infusing. This project explores and balances the possibilities of design.
Using the traditional culture and crafts to combine with modern design elements to create unique practices and new inheritance. - Project Duration
- Works was designed and produced in 2018.
Present in 2020 China National Silk Museum - Operation Flow
- Cloth are half handmade and half machine made,which makes product as unique wearable item. The project is using natural Indigo dying to achieve a comfortable feeling, artistic textural surface and eco-friendly to sustainable fashion design development.
- Patents
- Copyright by Lu Kuan/WU ZhiWu
- Team Members
- Creative Director and Designer:Lu Kuan
- Image Credits
- WU (ZhiWu) by Lu Kuan
Photographer: Yang Feng
Model:Li Ming
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