What kind of qualities should an excellent fashion designer have?
A steady stream of design inspiration? Familiar with clothing design theory? The ability to control styles, colors, and fabrics? Marketing and self-promotion capabilities.
These seem to be the necessary qualities for a successful fashion designer.
However, from an individual perspective, in fact, every fashion designer has their own characteristics.
Take Feng Ling, a Dutch designer that we will introduce today as an example. She has never received academic professional training in fashion art. It seems that from this standard, she is a layman; but out of her own interest and aesthetics in hippie culture, she gradually developed her own brand style. She dares to challenge the traditional design style, step out of the past and move towards the future.
The popularity of fashion art is due to people's bold imagination and innovation in fashion art. In the post-epidemic era, people have also had new thinking about the design and presentation of fashion art. The PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) caused by the epidemic has made the lively show less reassuring, and has also caused some fashion designers to think about the future of clothing art.
As a result, fashion designers such as Duran Rantico brought us a question on the show: in the future, how can designers combine new technologies to add a "new dress" to fashion videos , So as to achieve a win-win situation for viewers and designers? How can we achieve the coexistence of future fashion art and the environment by implementing the concept of resource reuse?
Today, we are going to use these individuals and their recent video works as examples to explore their future path.
When technology meets fashion, what will the future fashion show look like?
When technology meets fashion, what will the future fashion show look like?
At the end of the corridor, stood a woman who seemed to be waiting to be inspected. As the camera progressed, we discovered that it turned out to be a woman in a blue coat. The waist and left arm of the coat are stitched with leather with unique patterns. She is like the owner of this place. While stepping forward, two drones flew up and down around her, and the lights hit her, allowing us to see the design of the clothes in all directions.
Then, the camera took us to other spaces. Among these spaces, there are rooms decorated with patterns, living rooms with fireplaces, and corridors piled with clutter... In each unique space, there is a person walking around wearing clothes with a strong sense of splicing. There are drones that closely follow people around.
In May 2021, Durant Rantike, an upgrade designer from Amsterdam, brought us a different fashion show.
In the past, models walked on the catwalk, and people in the fashion industry sat down to admire and comment. This time, the models’ “showcase” turned into an abandoned corridor in the Dutch royal family’s Sustedek Palace; while the viewers sat on the opposite side of the screen.
The drone, like the eyes of the viewer, carries a sense of all-round scrutiny. At the same time, light and shadow are constantly changing, combined with weird background sounds, creating a sense of future and oppression. Duran Lantice’s expression is very advanced among the artists of the same period, allowing the audience to be fortunate to be the experiencers of this emerging fashion show and experience the future fashion show in advance.
Durant Landi can use hundreds of live drones to show his "springsummerautumnwinter21" series, replacing typical editors, photographers and professional audiences, making fashion shows into the digital world and integrating contemporary innovations.
The 2021 Four Seasons Fashion Show spliced Durant Rantico's previous unworn clothes with unsold clothes, dismantled and reconstructed the old clothes of Prada, Valentino, Off-White and Richard Quinn, and used their inventory to recreate new clothes. Work, reshape a unique design.
In the endless cycle of redesign and dual use, Durant Ranti can redefine clothing design. With such a design concept and a futuristic and innovative fashion show manifestation due to the blessing of technology, it is difficult to imagine how many fashion luxury brands' ideas will be permanently changed by innovators like him in the future.
When the fashion industry opens a new era of working with the environment
In addition to the futuristic sense of expression due to the blessing of science and technology, the uniqueness of this fashion show by Duran Lantike also lies in its philosophy.
The reason for this series of fashion designs with its unique sense of collage is that the designer Duran Lantic deliberately used the fabric he left over last year to complete the design and production. The zero-waste concept relies on its innovative upgrade recycling methods, using people’s favorite clothing and unsalable fabrics to create fashion that is both ethical and in line with the agenda setting. The goal is to cooperate with more retailers to promote the concept of zero-waste fashion. Emphasize the importance of reuse and environmental protection to the audience and the market.
In the upcoming video, there is also a fashion brand that originated in the Netherlands—Ninamounah. The brand also takes environmental protection and sustainability as the design concept.
Ninamounah’s latest series, based on natural phenomena as the concept starting point, adopts the recycling of old materials with a specific history, combines the traces of the past with the concept of the future, and integrates the "past history" into the "modern experimental design". Reflect the impact of human beings on the environment.
The classic pinstripe suits, shirts and sportswear have been redesigned a lot, the fabrics have been re-deconstructed, and the design elements of human organs have been added to create a sensual and subversive shape.
Not only that, Ninamounah's exploration of clothing materials is also subversive. The contrast between the softness of velvet and the discomfort of vinyl. The colors range from bubble gum pink to metallic gold. It tells the phenomenon of the coexistence of the natural world and human society, which is thought-provoking. .
In the fashion industry in recent years, "sustainable fashion" has been continuously admired, and many designers have put "resource recycling and reuse" into practice. Take this fashion show by Duran Lantice as an example. What he used was the original useless fabric left over last year, the so-called "turning waste into treasure."
Another good example also happened to come from a Dutch designer named Billy Van Katwijk. She used tripe as a raw material for making bags.
In addition to resource recycling, another commonly adopted one is sustainable fabrics. For example, many luxury brands slowly let go of their obsession with animal leather and began to look for materials such as mushrooms and organic cotton to replace them. The use of sustainable fabrics greatly reduces the loss of the environment, and it is a kind of liberation for animals.
The above art design concepts, whether combined with technology or exploring new materials, make people can't help but develop more imaginations about the attention of artists to environmental issues in the post-epidemic era and the way people view art.
When an interesting soul is combined with an immortal creative vitality
The combination of art and technology, as well as the meaning to the environment, are our exploration and understanding of different branches of the art lifeline. Art and society are also closely related and influence each other.
Each era has its iconic art, but sometimes, because of the era, we may also miss some great art. Feng Ling, a great artist, is deeply influenced by society and the times.
Feng Ling (1937～present) is a Dutch fashion designer. Her artistic career is long and charming.
Feng Ling was born in Chinatown in the port area of Rotterdam. His father is Chinese and his mother is Dutch. As a news photographer, she later moved to Amsterdam and had the opportunity to create some original "hippie style" costumes. As a result, she found her unique talent and quit her job as a photographer and started her own clothing job. room.
From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, fashion styles in the Western world were influenced by hippie culture, and the design paradigms of high-end and expensive international fashion brands also changed. In this treacherous social environment, Feng Ling actively uses her own way to seek her own voice.
In the beginning, she made a prominence in the clothing industry by designing hippie-style clothing; later, according to her client positioning-a relatively conservative upper-middle class, her design style changed to a simple Calvinist style and an Asian style that reflects personal cultural background; Later, inspired by the cultural change, she returned to the exaggerated style of the early hippies, and she has been out of control since then.
However, Feng Ling has also experienced an almost devastating blow. In 1977, the important client who ensured her reputation in the fashion industry passed away early; in 1987, the studio declared bankruptcy due to a wrong investment. After that, she disappeared for more than ten years, and the Dutch fashion industry seems to be joking with her. The Dutch high fashion with distinctive national characteristics once again successfully conquered the international stage.
It was not until 2003 that the Dutch fashion designers Victor and Rolf paid tribute to Feng Ling at the Paris fashion show, that people realized that the Dutch fashion industry almost ignored one of the greatest figures-Feng Ling.
A tease of fate, Feng Ling returned to the public eye and opened her second career as a creative artist.
Today, the eighty-year-old man, painted bright blue eye shadows, painted brightly colored lipsticks, wearing retro metal stud earrings, wearing very personal style clothing, sitting in front of the sewing machine, focusing on his needlework, Weaving a landscape of my own.
The extension of the life dimension of art is not only limited to Feng Ling’s continuous pursuit and creation of the time of her artistic career, but also Dulan Lantike’s innovation and exploration of advanced forms of expression, and Ninamounah recycling old materials to pay tribute to environmental protection and human sustainability. Development; not only the restoration and protection of works of art by dedicated personnel, but also the redesign of ancient classic works of art.
It can be said that Dutch artists and works of art are radiating a different kind of vitality.
These artists have continued the beauty of the art world in different forms and from different dimensions, so that more descendants who love and respect art can feel the charm of the art world to their fullest.
