new orleans LOUISIANA
Instructor: Sheena A. Garcia
Seminar: ADGM6300 Theories in Digital Media, Tulane University School of Architecture
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
hannah AMBROSE, caroline MEYER, shea TRAHAN, & andrew GRAHAM: This VIP tent for the Spring 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week embodies the idea that high fashion is a complex and seductive organism capable of consuming human interest through the ritual of spectacle.
hong kong CHINA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
kristof CROLLA & nelson CHOW: Shine is one of Hong Kong’s most renowned high-end multi-brand fashion stores, known for bringing pioneering foreign brands to Hong Kong clientele. The Shine Flagship Fashion Store in Causeway Bay, designed by NC Design & Architecture Ltd. (NCDA) and the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design Ltd. (LEAD), showcases how an architectural reinterpretation of contemporary textile patterns & accessories can be seamlessly integrated into fashion retail, creating a fascinating yet highly functional contemporary store.
london UNITED KINGDOM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
bryan OKNYANSKY: Heavy Metal Series is the debut and otherworldly high-heel collection by architecture and footwear designer Bryan Oknyansky, the creative mind behind the Bryan brand. Heavy Metal Series fuses steel, technology, and beauty above all. The new collection was born from Bryan’s architectural design research into advanced fabrication technology, to this point, used only by the automotive and aerospace industries to create both the most beautiful and performative products on earth. Designed 100% digitally, Heavy Metal Series takes applied physics to new, fashionable heights.
new york NEW YORK
Opening Reception
December 6th, 2011
8.00 pm to 11.00 pm
57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
amsterdam NETHERLANDS
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
lucy McRAE: For two years I have been experimenting with the idea of intangible textiles made form liquid vapor or air. I started off playing with standard garden hose systems and then upgraded to importing industrial air conditioning parts from China. It was during this experimentation that I saw liquid and air bubbles travelling through transparent tubes, I had no intention of making something with tubes, but this visual opportunity was too good not to pursue.
paris FRANCE
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
gwen van den EIJNDE: The performances Wystepy and Maskarada were presented in the fall of 2010 in Warsaw, in the frame of my residency at the Center for Contemporary Art Castle Ujazdowski. I designed a set of new outfits during the residency that were influenced by sarmatism and by polish folklore. The costumes are made to transform the body into a kind of sculpture, and they were realized by combining sometimes surprising materials, such as paper, dead leaves, Christmas decorations, napkins.
london ENGLAND
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
daniel WIDRIG: The objects are part of the Escapism Collection that was presented at the Paris Fashion Week earlier this year.
The project is a continuation of the collaboration between London based designer and architect Daniel Widrig and dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Escapism attempts to further investigate possibilities and potentiality of advanced digital design techniques and computer aided manufacturing in the realm of haute couture fashion. Based on the experiences made with earlier pieces such as Crystallization, Escapism pushes the limits of 3D printing in order to produce highly flexible structures. The dresses are made of bundles of fiber-like elements with minimized diameters.
purmerend NETHERLANDS
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
anouk WIPPRECHT : Selfpainting dresses, a project called Pseudomorphs (literally means ‘false form’) – I wanted to Anouk design towards systems that can make subtle transformations in order to let a design recreate itself. The neck-piece works with pneumatic control valves and an pressure and control system that allows the ink to be pumped throughout the design and spreads the ink over a series of absorbing dresses in a uncontrolled matter, making the designs to ‘bleed’ the ink that is given to them.
london ENGLAND
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
daniel WIDRIG: Crystallization is the first object in a series of digitally generated fashion sculptures resulting from an ongoing collaboration between London based designer Daniel Widrig and Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. The project introduces 3D printing techniques into the realm of haute couture fashion design and tests the potential of complex, digitally generated structures in combination with computer aided manufacturing techniques for fashion design purposes in a broader sense.
london UK
tim BLANKS: Wasn’t it only yesterday that we were in Princess Margaret’s apartment in Kensington Palace for the Acne show? She was the Rihanna of her day, the good girl gone bad, and clearly she’s struck a chord for Spring 2011, because today christopher KANE was name-checking this royal muse.
“Super-sophisticated,” he called her. His sister Tammy nailed the essence of the latest Kane collection as “Princess Margaret on acid.”
