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WHY DO WE HAVE TO LEAVE
OUR COMFORT ZONE?
La Diva Aux Pieds Nus is my personal departure towards the other. It‘s the attempt to get out of your own comfort zone without denying it.
CONTEXT
Graduation project
MY ROLE
End to end design:
Design research
Conception
Colletion development
Pattern making
Sampling
Final production
Visual documentation
DURATION
Six month
TECHNIQUES
Draping
FRAMEWORK
The focus of these aesthetic studies is the male body as the counterpart and expression of the very other.
Like a catalyst, it allows the individual vestimentary components to react with each other, generating different lines and shapes, proportions and fragments. The resulting underwear items work with and against the body, irritating and aestheticizing. They are in the inbetween, in multiplicity.
RESEARCH
During my research of man's under-wear garments I noticed almost all garments can be sorted in one of four categories. Those categories exist separatley with little to no overlap.
For this research I defined underwear
in the broarder sense of clothing pieces that are worn directly on the body. In some cases there are no layers worn on top, making the terminology under-wear seem incorrect.
DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Based on the findings of the research I used reference pieces of every category, putting them on the dressform and taping hemlines and characteristic seamlines of the garments on the dressform. The resulting line system summerizes all underwear categories that normally exist seperately. I developed different underwear pieces by sketching them using
copies of the dressform on paper followed by draping them on the dressform using the line system. For the form study I select 10 underwear pieces that altogether use all the lines on the dress form, 5 being symetrical and 5 asymetrical. These garments get combined to outfits.
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
TEXTILE STENCILS
PHOTOGRAPHY
ASSISTANCE
Moritz Haase
Ronja Biggemann
SHAPE STUDY – UNDERWEAR ON THE BODY
QUESTION
SUBJECT-MATTER
How do the textile stencils stage the male body? Do the pieces have a connection when combined and if they do how can it be described?
Graphic on the body, examination of proportions, shapes and line quality on the human body.
HYPOTHESIS / SPECULATION
The potential range of the dialectical link between comfort and discomfort, the familiar and strange possesses a unique design potential. Through moments of unity and irritation caused by the encounter of textile and body, a new quality of line, shape and proportion can appear.
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