“Fashion is intensely personal, in the same way that poetry is intensely personal. It is a medium through which personal stories can be told, memories re-lived and futures foretold.”
For myself beauty is found in the the simplistic ways of my life whether it be the soft pattering of the rain on a Sunday morning or the scent of my mother’s cooking wafting in and out the house. I find that there is in fact a certain kind of complexity within simplicity. Like the lovebirds from nature we have the innate desire to embellish ourselves but as a designer I play with that innate desire and remove it to see what kind of garments I end up with. I see more of it as a challenge to do more with less. Minimalism comforted me in the past as I dressed only in black and plain garments to minimize who I was as a person. It was a choice of mine to dress in only black which defined myself to others before I could even define myself.
“Fashion moves in space and time. It shares in the complexity of physics and mathematics, making patterns and networks, forming mazes and constellations. Through its forms we have an opportunity to re-unite art and science and to heal the rift of the two cultures.”
The future in fashion relies heavily on technology especially with designers using laser printing and 3d printing methods for their designs. It is allowing designers to truly understand the complexity of the human form as now we have overcome the idea of bodies being one size. As designers for bodies we heavily rely on mathematics to determine everything from fabric usage to pattern making to the actual fit of the garment. To design clothing is truly art and science itself as developing 2-d sketches into a 3-d garment is the very collaboration of art and science.
