- Issey Miyake uses synthentic materials to create a lightweight, shaped garment that is versatile and adjusts to the form. Many of his garments can be folding into flat geometric shapes, in order to maintain pleats and creasing. He plays with the relationship between the material, the form and the body, allowing each to create a unique and innovative look.
2. Ying Gao is a designer who is integrating a variety of forms of technology into garments. She is playing with materials and how they can (literally) cause movement. These garments contain eye tracking sensors that process individuals looking at the garment, causing it to move as if the material was a living organism.
3. Iris Van Herpen is a designer that utilizes 3D printing. She creates alien or other worldly like garments that focus on form. She teams up with many scientists and artists to create her collections using innovative digital processes and techniques to create her avant garde, wearable art. Many of her collections are inspired by nature.
4. This S/S 1997 collection created by Rei Kawakubo for her brand Comme des Garcons, plays with form in an interesting way. It begins to destroy what is “conventional” dress, but also creates a discussion of the “idealized” body image for women projected by the fashion and beauty industries. Through creating biomorphic/organic forms in the garments, they allude to the bodies natural irregularities and shifts.
5. These two designs created from Grace Jun and Lucy Jones, are garments developed for people who have disabilities and/or experience their bodies changing through illness, surgery, and age. These designers initiate the conversation of forms of ablism in the fashion industry. Many design for the one percent or a specific consumer. These designers are working along side survivors of illness and the disabled to create comfortable and practical garments that are easy to remove and put on, and accommodate to their conditions, but make the wearer feel confident.
