Dhahabu Mitindo · 2020
Hybrid Beauty Mkusanyiko Wa Wanawake
by Moon Chang
- Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award 2020 in Mitindo
- CLIENT: Moon Chang Design Studio
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 177,474
- Verification code 5C6DF9184E · Verify this award
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About Hybrid Beauty Mkusanyiko Wa Wanawake
Ubunifu wa mkusanyiko wa Uzuri wa mseto ni kutumia utunzaji kama njia ya kuishi. Vipengee vilivyopatikana nzuri ni ribbons, ruffles, na maua, na hurejeshwa na mitambo ya jadi na mbinu za kuosha. Hii inaboresha mbinu za zamani za ujasusi kwa mseto wa kisasa, ambao ni wa kimapenzi, wa giza, lakini pia wa milele. Mchakato mzima wa muundo wa Uzuri wa mseto unakuza uendelevu wa miundo isiyo na wakati.
About the Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award
Hybrid Beauty Mkusanyiko Wa Wanawake ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kuu unaotolewa kwa miundo ya daraja la kwanza, ya ajabu na ya kuvutia. Washindi wa Dhahabu ni kazi bunifu mno, zenye maono makubwa na za kung'aa kwa umaridadi zinazoakisi kipaji, hekima na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. Hybrid Beauty Mkusanyiko Wa Wanawake inatarajiwa kuwa uvumbuzi unaosifiwa sana, wa kuweka mielekeo na wa kihistoria unaoleta thamani isiyo na kifani. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award ni mradi wa kustaajabisha na unaoheshimika unaonufaisha sana na kupanua mipaka ya sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia. Hybrid Beauty Mkusanyiko Wa Wanawake huzua hisia kali za hamu, huamsha shauku, huhimiza ubunifu na hutuvutia.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The hybrid flowers is the main motif of the collection. It reinterprets the historical cute features,ribbons, ruffles,and flowers, so the traditional millinery and couture techniques are embedded. Handmade flowers are molded by velvet with heated metal. The hybrid flowers translate into two dimensional print on silk and sequins, with stuffing, embroidery, and beading to create modern camouflage. The collection emphasized old couture techniques to hybrid version, in beautiful but also ugly way.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The whole collection is 8 looks womenswear, size 4.
- Tags
- modern couture, wearable couture, bow shirt, handmade flowers, oversize bow dress,
- Production Technology
- The traditional couture handmade flowers made out of 100 years brass metal mold. The couture tailoring techniques. The flower bouquet packaging process translates into draping and silhouette. The digital heat transferred prints on various fabrics like silk, organza, satin and sequin. The hand embroidery with beading, and also couture origami folds' transition to the big bow.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge of this journey was to solve ptsd as a perspective of a fashion designer, how to visualize the conceptions into the real garment. The second challenge was reinterpretation of history. Collecting the historical and vintage tools to create handmade flowers takes almost 2 years. This journey was the challenge to make the past alive again.
- Research
- While researching the brain, there are connections between ptsd and also aesthetic judgement as a visual language metaphorically.The approach to this study is what if the universal object that everyone regards as beautiful becomes ugly and how this will look like, by showing that the beautiful and ugly are not opposite, they are same as a skin on a skin. By choosing pink flower as the object to experiment, which is a standard of the beauty, and also contains cliche and stereotype. Through this process, the evolutionary storyline of Hybrid Beauty was made.
- Inspiration
- Hybrid Beauty is the convergence of dualism, cuteness and death being used as a protective mechanism. It has a story based on the evolutionary order from the designer's researches. Starting from the designer's personal story, when the time Moon had ptsd, the death moment. To deal with this, Moon chose to go back to childhood, also on the other word being cute. By combining the cute features from clothes which have been survived until now with victorian silhouette, it create hybrid couture collection, which is not just beautiful, but also ugly.
- Project Duration
- Hybrid Beauty is mfa thesis from FIT graduate fashion design program. This started from August 2017, and ends up May 2019. It was exhibited in FIT museum in New York, and fashion show during New York fashion week S/S 2020.
- Operation Flow
- The looks of collection seem very light and beautiful, but when you wear it, you will be wrapped around with 4-5 yards of light fabrics like faille or silk organza. This is the way of creating the experience of ptsd by flower bouquet packaging techniques.
- Patents
- Copyright to Moon Chang
- Image Credits
- Image #1-5: Moon Chang, The Noise
Video: Moon Chang, The Noise
