CAMILLE CORTET

Amsterdam designer Camille Cortet created these snake-like leggings by cutting triangular apertures into the fabric.
Called Snake&Molting, the pattern changes as the wearer moves and the holes expand and contract.
This project is part of the Transformations project.
By observing animal transformations we understand animals’ behaviours that we can connect with and that we would like to have from them. These animal behaviours are inspirations for our own transformations.
The Transformations body-ornaments are about adapting animals’ behaviours to our culture. It is a way to create new gestures and new body languages within clothing and ornaments. Camille Cortet translates the animal’s beauty and finally merge with its behaviour, almost to the point of embodying it.
Snake&Molting legwear
Our skin ages through cycles of molt that we can’t notice whereas snakes have to go through exhausting stages in order to escape from their skin that becomes too old and too tigh. This behaviour and experience are translated in a body ornament.
The tights are becoming a second skin, made of a laser cut textile, they become textured with the shape of the body. The second skins evolves with our movements. It ages and breaks as a skin after several uses.
 

BILL HENSON - REAL PRESENCES

ANDY WARHOL KISS

 Among Warhol’s cinematic oeuvre, the black-and-white silent films are the most daring and experimental in their selection of subject and theme, psychological acuity, rhythmic pacing, and sheer beauty of form. Although these films were originally shot at sound-film speed (twenty-four frames per second), Warhol specified that prints be projected at a slower speed of sixteen frames per second, a rate used in the projection of silent films from the 1890s through the 1920s. For this exhibition, a selection of Warhol’s films made between 1963 and 1966 has been transferred from 16mm film to DVD at the speed of sixteen frames per second, and projected onto screens and monitors in a gallery setting. Thus it is again possible to see the works as Warhol intended, and to appreciate the ways in which he challenged and provoked both subject and viewer in his manipulation of moving images.

Andy Warhol. Kiss. 1963–64. 16mm film (black and white, silent). 54 min. at 16fps. © 2010 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Nº C, A MAGAZINE CURATED BY HUSSEIN CHALAYAN

A few images from Nº C, A Magazine Curated By Hussein Chalayan.

Winter Collections 2002-3

Drawings by Hussein Chalayan

HUSSEIN CHALAYAN - ANAESTHETICS

Chalayan’s work has already proven not to be just about radical fashion design.
In ANAESTHETICS the designer is also a sculptor, a filmmaker and an animator.
Speed, displacement and identity play a signi cant role on this discrete project.


ANAESTHETICS is, like Chalayan says, a “ Film sketch book” with 11 chapters based on what the designer refers to as “institutions which codify behaviour in order to conceal violence”.
This project was part of the exhibition B-Side in Britain, a showcase regarding Chalayan’s exploitation of the body movement and voyeurism.
This exhibition consists of three projects : A Cross Section, Anaesthetics and Inertia.

LIANNA SHEPPARD

Lianna Sheppard

MODU_GRAM

"modu_gram is a project by recent masters in fashion design graduate lianna sheppard which is
influenced by mathematical models and fractional forms. together it is a collection of wearable structures
that explore the interrelation and interplay between 3D structural shapes and forms with the
central body, creating a set of new silhouettes and encounters of human interaction and engagement." 

"The pieces transform through the use of several different mean: light movement, structure and color.
they are constructed with built-in magnets, allowing pieces to be worn at different positions on the body,
performing and transforming as a continuous series of itself. initially created through simple folds and origami techniques, forms are generated on varying scales for each structure: 'octa', 'tetra', 'edra' and 'poly'."

images by designboom

ANGELA ELLSWORTH

Angela Ellsworth

seer bonnets - a continuing offense

“Angela ellsworth is an american multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, drawings, installations
and performances explore the female body in its various contexts and constraints.
her work considers subjects such as physical tness, endurance, social ritual, religious tradition,
performance art and american colonial history. ellsworth's 'seer bonnets: a continuing o ense'
(2009-2010) refers to her rejected mormon heritage presented through series of antiquated
pioneer women's bonnets, constructed out of thousands of pearl-tipped corsage pins embedded
into fabric with their points directed inwards. the small, fetish-like objects not only refer to the
tradition of craft work in the home - women's work - but also stand as disembodied memorials
to the lives su ering cruelty, submission and control.”

A seer bonnet

Detail of the corsage pins

Full view of a seer bonnet 

Installation view

-images by designboom-