Library

THE GUIDE MOVES A LITTLE, STANDING AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE LIBRARY (BUT NOT YET LETTING VISITORS IN)

Approximately 9,000 of the almost 15,000 portfolios received over 20 years are kept in this, for us, magical place. 6,000 of these, in fact, are kept in another space with the oversized projects.

LA GUIDA ENTRA NELLA LIBRARY PRENDE IL TELECOMANDO (IN INGRESSO) PER REGOLARE IL VOLUME DEL VIDEO MAPPING E SI POSIZIONA AL CENTRO DEL BANCONE E FA DEFLUIRE ( TIPO HOSTESS DI VOLO) I VISITATORI A DX E SX:

For us, the LIBRARY represents the temple of design, celebrating thought taking shape through a creative process that materialises in paper, textile or digital medium.

Each project is housed in a case, you are literally surrounded by them. On each one is a barcode that allows us to recognise them through a database in which their location is also indicated. A soon-to-be-available app will allow you to independently access much more information about the archive.

But what is a PORTFOLIO?

A portfolio represents the bridge between the artist's idea and the materialisation of this idea. Through a portfolio, we are able to discover how each artist has interpreted his or her concept of creativity by transforming an idea into something material.

Now take a look at the centre glass cabinet where you will find a video where we show you how a portfolio is structured. Normally a portfolio is created following 5 steps:

  1. 1. the idea or concept:

the artist always starts from an idea, a concept they want to express. This concept has to be written down, to get it out of their mind and onto paper.

2. the research: which represents the path of elaboration and deepening of that idea, that concept; the artist goes in search of images, visual references that illustrate the initial idea, whatever is of inspiration connected to the concept in order to start visualising colours, techniques and shapes.

3. the development diary: all this "creative material" collected is developed and arranged in the manner the artist deems most suitable: photos, poems, books, images and so on are coherently assembled in a moodboard, a blackboard of inspiration 4. the sketches: in this phase the creative starts to put the pieces together, through drawing (whether by hand or computer) and elaborate everything that has been collected in their diary to develop the initial idea, as it begins to materialise.

All these phases, however, can be interchangeable, can intersect and contaminate each other. You have to think that we are always in the field of a creative process that has no barriers or limits. 5. materials: the final part begins, the more physical part, being the choice of materials, of fabrics, and we begin to understand what the final object will look like and how it will be made.

In the final part of the process the collection or individual object is completed and produced, it is often contextualised within their world, their imagination, through a photo shoot that completes and enhances its characteristics.

As you can guess from what we have told you, a portfolio is much more than just paper and fabric. A portfolio is the testimony of a path, of the passion and hard work required to tackle it in search of new perspectives of beauty. Some of these creatives from these projects have built careers, translating their passion into work.

Look around, you are surrounded by portfolios. You find them:

(SHOWING EACH TIME)

  • in niches
  • in display cases
  • filed in cases
  • digitally narrated in a book.

(THE GUIDE MOVES TOWARDS THE DIGITAL BOOK AND INVITES VISITORS TO GATHER TO BEGIN THE STORY OF THE DIGITISED PORTFOLIO)

...this is the digitisation of a portfolio, containing the project of Tomohiro Sato, fashion finalist in 2013. This mode allows you to enter Tomohiro's imagination through a fantasy and dreamlike sensory experience, aimed at stimulating your creativity.

THE GUIDE STARTS THE STORY AS GUIDE OPENS THE FIRST PAGE. FOLLOWS THE SECOND AND THIRD (dark pages) CONTINUING THE NARRATION. AFTER WHICH GUIDE INVITES A VISITOR TO CONTINUE TURNING PAGES AS GUIDE TURNS TO THE VIDEO MAPPING CONTINUING THE NARRATIVE UNTIL HE/SHE SEES THE CLOSING OF A PORTFOLIO ON THE VIDEO MAPPING.

(story 1 portfolio opening and closing 3'40 "approx.)

As you can see, there are all the development phases we mentioned earlier, starting with the concept:

Tomohiro Sato

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2013 TOMOHIRO SATO
“WEAK MAN'S DREAM"

The collection is a deeply personal, visionary journey of the artist who takes us to a surreal playground. It is a tribute to Tomohiro's grandfather, who passed away after a long illness that caused him so much suffering: the playground symbolises Tomohiro's wish to be able to give his grandfather a place in the afterlife where he can finally be happy and forget the pain. All the toys in the park are inspired by his grandfather and his personal memories, which Tomohiro decided to transform into his clothes. The designs come from his unconscious, his memories create his style. The clothes are inspired by samurai culture and Tyrolean folklore and are made to keep these memories alive. Here you can see how from the idea, step by step, Tomohiro arrived at the actual materialisation of the clothes. The portfolio in his case becomes itself a real artistic research tool, extremely personal.

Tomohiro Sato

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concept title:

Weak man's dream

Concept:

A profoundly intimate journey through an amusement park where enduring pain is the ticket inside. Contrived from the desire that the soul of Tomohiro's grandfather - who died feeling great pain - might play in exchange for his suffering. All of the activities in the park are inspired by memories of his grandfather, and are captured in the clothes of this collection. Drawing from his unconscious, recollecting the past to create this style. The clothes - reference elements from samurai culture to Tyrolean folklore - serve to keep these memories alive.

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THE GUIDE DRAWS THE VISITORS' ATTENTION TO THE OPPOSITE WALL.

Now turn towards the opposite side of the Library: you will see projected a video-mapping in which you are accompanied inside a portfolio, or rather inside 3 portfolios, through the voice of Barbara Franchin, President and founder of ITS, who flicking through the portfolios tells you about them. Let's get closer.

THE GUIDE INVITES VISITORS TO MOVE TOWARDS THE VIDEO MAPPING AND LISTEN TO THE NARRATION OF A PORTFOLIO AFTER TURNING UP THE VOLUME. AT THE END OF THE NARRATION HE LOWERS THE VOLUME AGAIN.

At the end of each story, you will see the portfolio close and magically re-enter its place on the shelf, while the next one comes out and opens to tell a new story. Beautiful, isn't it?

To conclude our journey through the Library, we have displayed a selection of portfolios inside the showcases to show you the more material side of them, developed and finished by the artist.

LA GUIDA RACCONTA 2/3 PORTFOLIO ESPOSTI:

We start with Yoshikazu Yamagata who is on the right of the central board.

2004 Yoshikazu Yamagata

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2004 YOSHIKAZU YAMAGATA
A LONG STORY

Yoshikazu Yamagata is a perfect example of Japanese creativity, a unique creativity that has the ability to remove any filter from the oneiric: the dream, the idea, it arrives directly to the real world without any modification, without following any rules or constructs to adapt. Back in Japan following ITS, Yoshi opened a school together with other finalists, dedicated to training such designers, true dream materialisers. The collection we are looking at is a visionary dream populated by seemingly unconnected characters, each with their own individual stories: the child who steals a giant bra from a cave, a writer at work while his mind is occupied by a date with a girl, a homeless man... each character carries real-life symbolism, some evocative others to be imagined... for example, does the child steal the bra as a wish to return to his mother? or as an expression of gender choice? In other characters feelings were only implied in the portfolio, such as the second child you can see in the drawings on display, who wears a gigantic jacket, as if to symbolise the weight of adulthood against the (undressed and free) innocence of childhood.

2004 Yoshikazu Yamagata

Current position:

Yoshikazu Yamagata - own line

Coconogacco school director

Concept title:

A long story

Concept:

Yoshikazu Yamagata developed a storytelling collection of dreamlike characters right out of a visionary fairy tale. A stylish street style girl picking up flawed garments that work coherently as a whole. An 80 year old bride, a child who stole a huge bra from a giant monster's cave, an artist who's only pleasure is providing happiness to as many people as possible. A clock girl who controls time, a witch and a novelist, who is writing this fairy tale, but is thinking of a date with a beautiful girl, checking his outfit, making sure all is perfect. In this collection the ability to bring dreams to life unfiltered is developed to the fullest, brushing with the spheres of costume design.

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È direttore dei fondatori della scuola Coconogacco, dove ha studiato uno dei vincitori di ''ITS collection of the year'' a ITS NINE, Takashi Nishiyama.

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On the left you will find Ek Thongprasert

2007 EK THONGPRASERT

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2007 EK THONGPRASERT
THE LITTLE PRINCE
Childhood as a theme has been addressed and articulated over the years by numerous finalists. Ek Thongprasert, from Thailand, starts from Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince to develop a collection that is a visual metaphor for the relationship with the child within us. The exterior represents adulthood, characterised by heavy, rigid garments, layered to the point of translating a barbed wire into three dimensions. The mask is the conformist mask worn to face society. But once the mask is taken off, and the coats removed, the child within is revealed: light fabrics, pastel colours that recall lightness, the sky, and embroidered details of childhood, of our true sending, of our freedom. Ek is also an excellent example of a designer who develops complex concepts - the pivotal theme is childhood, but there are sub-layers referring to the caste structure of Indian society, family trees and much more - from which articulate research has been carried out.

2007 Ek Thongprasert

Current position:

Own line Ek Thongprasert Antwerp

concept title:

The little prince

Concept:

The backbone for Ek Thongprasert's collection is Saint-Exupéry's "Le Petit Prince": the differences between children and adults and the reasons why children, when they become adults, forget their most precious gift in life: imagination. The whole collection tells the story of a group of people tired of forcing themselves to become someone they are not and the beginning of their journey to rediscover their own identity. The outer later is the fake, the adult's skin. The inside layer is truth, the child, our true identity. Through a visual journey that drives structural inspiration from biology, the Indian caste system and autobiographic references of Ek's childhood, we are carried through a journey of transformation to make peace with our inner self and break free from the rigidities of our outer, constructed shells.

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Finally, in the centre you can see the portfolio of Aharon Israel Genish

2020 Aharon Israel Genish

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2020 AHARON ISRAEL GENISH:
“LO TISHTOK”- YOU WILL NOT BE SILENCED
For this Israeli designer, the collection becomes catharsis, the resolution of a childhood trauma: sexual abuse experienced within his ultra-orthodox Jewish community. Already from the portfolio we enter artistically into the aesthetic and visual canons of the collection's clothes. Here the designer experiments with his senses, with different textures, thicknesses, colours. He sews directly onto the portfolio because he is constantly searching, searching through the portfolio that became a tool, for that aesthetic he wants to bring to the clothes. It is a tale in images of the resolution of his trauma.

2020 Aharon Israel Genish

Current position:

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concept title:

Lo Tishtok - You will not be silenced

Concept:

One of the prominent phenomena in ultra-Orthodox Judaism is life in the shadow of silencing. Children and teenagers are being sexually abused and raped every day, and their voices will not be heard. As a child who grew up in an ultra-Orthodox family, Aharon was educated in Torah studies. It was the high-grade rabbi who decided to cherish him and make him his Chavruta (learning companion) every evening. On one of those evenings, during the learning, Aharon felt deep suffocation. The rest can be assumed. His collection reflects the profound emotional journey he has been through, from the eyes of a child who has undergone shock, revenge and acceptance. His work symbolises his daily pledge to fulfil the eleventh commandment: Thou shall not be silenced.

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As you can see, languages are extremely diverse

THE GUIDE LEAVES SOME TIME FOR THE VISITORS TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE EXHIBITED PORTFOLIOS OR FOR ANY QUESTIONS AND THEN INVITES THE VISITORS TO COME OUT AND STAND IN FRONT OF THE CURATOR'S VIDEO.

THE GUIDE MUST REMEMBER TO PUT THE REMOTE CONTROL BACK IN ITS PREDEFINED PLACE

2020 Rei Sato, Yumi Tanabe

Inside Out/ L'interno fuori

2020 Rei Sato | Jumi Tanabe

Current position:

Own line EARMIND, first collection 2023

concept title:

Inside out

Concept:

Music preferences are hard to visualise. People have their own unique, original playlists only inside their brains. Influences shaped by family, friends, maybe movies seen or books read. This inspired Rei and Jumi to create a surreal new form of communication by visualising thoughts, memories and musical tastes bursting out of our brains when listening to music. The brain activity materialises in the form of an ear monitor headpiece. Every ear set is bespoke determined by the customer's unique playlist. Created by exclusively using discarded, upcycled materials in an effort to recycle as much as possible and evolve new thoughts and expressions using old material. Believing that reusing the old to create the new is the way to go.

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2020 Shiori Mizuoki, Hiroki Okamoto

Colour Chaser / Il cacciatore di colori

2020 Shiori Mizuochi | Hiroki Okamoto

Current position:

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concept title:

Colour chaser

Concept:

The lights that vividly hit the surface of the objects can be so much fun to work with, especially if one approaches them microscopically, by looking through the lens of a microscope, to discover vast horizons of light glowing and dancing. A photograph of such explorations will reveal grains of light, multicolored works of art in which the colors gradually changing produce marvellous patterns. A tiny world that is affected by the refraction of the light. Shiori and Hiroki played with the idea that our body is much larger than a grain of light, but we have clothes that can capture them. Wrap them as if they were inside a prism of light, blowing up their dimension to match our scale and allow us to catch them.

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2019 Giovanni Pacienza

Arberia

2019 Giovanni Pacienza

Current position:

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Concept title:

Arberia

Concept:

Giovanni pays tribute to the history of the Arberesh community in the south of Italy. It started by leafing through a family album which contained remnants of a culture of exiles, who settled in the south of Italy around 1400 giving birth to a peculiar community.

The final collection is the result of the influence of elements derived from the study and analysis of the Italian-Albanian costume, both male and female, and from a photographic research that has affected the design aesthetic. Arberia refers to the entire Albanian diaspora, when these people moved from Morea (Peloponnese) and Ciamuria to southern Italy, where they faithfully recreated their homeland, passing on traditions, customs, religious rites and above all, the arbëreshë language. Working on the study of three key elements of their traditional costume - the vest, the shirt and the pleated skirt - Giovanni wanted to read them as masculine, elaborating variants and introducing elements from womenswear. He wanted to revive these lost garments by giving them ironic romance features, with a taste for the flamboyant and a patina of homoeroticism.

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2012 Momoko Okusa

MÀSCARA CONTRA MÀSCARA

2012 Momoko Okusa

Current position:

Tutor at Coconogacco

Concept title:

MÀSCARA CONTRA MÀSCARA

Concept:

There is curiosity around people and their disguises, clothes can express something about the inner self. These considerations led Momoko to research the world of Mexican luchadores, wrestling fighters who never take off their masks, not even in their private lives. Nobody knows what they really look like. Embodying the character dictated by the mask but at the same time hiding behind the mask for protection. A way to role play, but analysed it can give clues to understand who lies behind the mask.

Momoko’s collection shouts out for everyone to fight for their real faces, each and every day. Let’s not hide behind masks, even if they might protect us.

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2020 Rafaela Pestritu

My granny is a hacker / Mia nonna è un hacker

2020 Rafaela Pestritu

Current position:

Own line Rafaela Pestritu

concept title:

MY GRANNY IS A HACKER

Concept:

Rafaela always wanted to express her gratitude towards her grandmother. Not just because she raised her, but because she taught her to live my life fearlessly. This collection is an ode to her. As a child, Rafaela was intrigued by her grandmother’s thirst for knowledge: her parents could not afford to take her to school, so she decided to learn everything on her own. Even though she lived a traditional life, her curiosity for knowledge and the outside world meant she was not afraid of technology. This is why Rafaela explores the antagonistic relationship between technology and tradition throughout her collection

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Iscritta quattro volte, finalista nel 2022

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2010 David Longshaw

Escaping Emily / In fuga da Emily

2010 David Longshaw

Current position:

David Longshaw & Kirsty Ward own line Longshawward

Lecturer of Fashion at SCAD Atlanta

concept title:

ESCAPING EMILY

Concept:

The entire collection is rooted in David’s passion for storytelling illustration. This is a tale of an abandoned puppet rediscovered by a rather disturbed fashion designer named Emily, who has moved to San Giovanni in Marignano, a picturesque Italian village, a few miles from the seaside resort of Cattolica. Despite the charm of the Italian village, Emily became home-sick. Until one night, whilst rearranging her apartment, she discovered a peculiarly proportioned puppet (dressed in a floral t-shirt and high waisted trousers with exaggerated pockets) slouched in a wicker basket under a puzzling avalanche of watch and clock parts and a book of pressed flowers. Charmed by her discovery, Emily began to tell the puppet tales from home. The tales became ever more wild as did Emily’s re-enactments of scenes from her past using the puppet. Soon, it was thread bare and badly damaged. Left with little choice, the puppet tried to make armour for itself from whatever it could get its paws on. But ultimately what it had to do, was escape Emily.

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Ha creato una serie di fumetti per bambini intitolato "Maude", in cui il protagonista è un topolino.

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2009 Letizia Vicenzi

Opening - Closing /
Aprire - chiudere

2009 Letizia Vicenzi

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Concept title:

OPENING - CLOSING

Concept:

Letizia’s collection communicates a timeless way of being, free from all the rules and conventions of styles proposed by fashion. They represent individual freedom of expression. Deeply feminine and whimsical, her women march against the idea of ​​submission to the world, consciously addressing society in a playful and ironic way. The clothes become theatrical silhouettes, reaching beyond the present moment, reviving echoes of antiquity and distance. Letizia drove her inspiration from the Amish aesthetics and particularly from the novel “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”. A quote from Muriel Barbery’s celebrated book is enough to sum-up the entire philosophy underlying these clothes: "Madame Michel has the elegance of a hedgehog, outside she is protected by quills, a real fortress, but I suspect that inside she is simple, refined like hedgehogs, indolent little animals, resolutely solitary and terribly elegant.” Ultimately, the collection is about the abiguity and ambivalence of past and future, austerity and vanity, popular class and middle class, work dress and formal dress, intimacy and sociality, dream and reality. And everything fits in a nostalgic timelessness.

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2003 Fabrizio Talia

A Sort of Fairy Tale / Un sorta di favola

2003 Fabrizio Talia

Current position:

Freelance designer

concept title:

A Sort of Fairy Tale

Concept:

"A Sort of Fairy Tale", is how Fabrizio Talia describes this project. A story indeed, about a woman recollecting the days of her childhood when she was happy and carefree. Now that she is old, life is not as easy as it used to, and it shows: Fabrizio visualised nostalgia of days past with broken masks of youth and details built from child dolls heads. One model made the reference as clear as could be, carrying a tiny black stroller. The entire collection pays tribute to an idea of fashion that Fabrizio will do on to develop some years later: a tribute to high fashion from the past, to constructions and attention to details that he’s concerned are at risk of being lost.

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2020 Alice Piscedda

Briseadh

2020 Alice Piscedda

Current position:

 

concept title:

BRISEADH

Concept:

This is a unisex collection inspired by the movie “Sing Street” by John Carnie, based on the recession that hit Dublin in the 80s. The same atmospheres of the film are portrayed in Rob Bremner’s book "The Dash Between", featuring pictures of adolescents belonging to the working class. Alice worked on an oversize fit and childish aesthetic, mixed with two-dimensional shapes inspired by the collages of the english artist Peter Clark. The“Peace Lines” murals in Belfast were also reworkerd through the decollage technique to create prints and fabric manipulation, evoking the fracture of the city, and there's a reference to Irish aran knits in a sweater made from paper yarn.

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2013 Takahiro Ueno

It's better to burn out than to fade away /
E' meglio bruciare in fretta che spegnersi lentamente

2013 Takahiro Ueno

Current position:

Pattern Maker and Assistance Designer at Comme Des Garcons Co.

concept title:

It’s better to burn out than to fade away

Concept:

Working on a personal assumption that many people, especially in Japan, were just looking for cool, sexy and cute outfits forgetting about what in Takahiro’s opinion is real beauty, an aesthetic concept not to be taken for granted. Combining 15th century menswear, second-hand grunge t-shirts and Japanese traditional book binding, his garments reflect his personal sense of beauty, so that whoever sees his work has the opportunity to re-think about how important this simple yet fundamental concept is.

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Tra il 2012 e il 2013 ha lavorato come Intern Assistant Designer con Aitor Throup.

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2014 Hiroki Kataoka

The soul of a boy / L'animo di un bambino

2014 Hiroki Kataoka

Current position:

Own line Hiroki Kataoka

concept title:

THE SOUL OF A BOY

Concept:

Hiroki has been in love with cars since a very young age, a passion he got from his father. The reason he then chose to become a footwear designer is that he found there were similarities between cars and shoes. For instance, the shape of shoes can remind that of a car but most importantly, they both carry people. The collection tries to bridge the two, by using lead as the main material and referencing down-force geometries of racing cars for the shapes. The aim was to come up with a style that would be justified and coherent, at the same time paying tribute to Hiroki’s chilhood passion.

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2006 Matthieu Blazy

Untitled / Senza Titolo

2006 Matthieu Blazy

Current position:

Creative Director at Bottega Veneta

concept title:

UNTITLED

Concept:

The starting point of this collection was the graphic transcription of scientific phenomena or extraordinary natural curiosities (diagrams of geological cross- sections, studies of crystallized rocks, etc) and also the ways in which these materials were used in Rococo ornamentation such as furniture and architecture.

Matthieu aims at synthesising natural shapes and reorganising them on the body, creating graphic outfits by using black and white stripes to symbolise scientific notes and underline the division of elements.

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Luglio 2006. Ai tempi pochi conoscevano il volto di Raf Simons, che si faceva fotografare raramente.

la sera dell'evento, Matthieu chiacchera con una persona conosciuta sul momento. I due iniziano a parlare di quali fossero i loro designer preferiti, chi vorrebbero incontrare e con chi vorrebbero lavorare. "Mi piacerebbe moltissimo poter presentare il mio lavoro a Raf Simons". Risposta: "sono io, mi piace molto il tuo lavoro, vieni a lavorare con me". L'inizio di una amicizia, e di una collaborazione, che dura da allora.

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2006 Heaven Tanudiredja

Trapped in a gold portrait / Intrappolato in un ritratto dorato

2006 Heaven Tanudiredja

Current position:

Own line Heaven Tanudiredja Antwerp

concept title:

Trapped in a gold portrait

Concept:

Documenting the disappearance of traditional funeral ceremony on the island of Java. The deceased is buried into the main wall of a new home to give soul and perfection to the building. By also driving inspiration from Gustav Klimt’s paintings he created a collection that combined eastern elements with western aesthetics from the end of the 19th century. The fabrics were treated to give the sensation of a man trapped inside a wall.

The goal was to come up with a melancholy yet romantic and powerful menswear collection, made of outfits that are refined and rough at the same time. A collection in which East meets West and old traditions meet new traditions.

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Ha collaborato con Anabela Chan, ex finalista di ITS 2012 e ITS 2013.

 

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2007 Yael Ben Ari

Berta

2007 Yael Ben-Ari

Current position:

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concept title:

Berta

Concept:

It is the year 1959 and eight-year old Berta is sitting in her room playing with her dolls. With her back to the door, she brutally rips her dolls apart, cutting, chopping, burning and molesting them. Yet it is all done delicately. Being an only child she is bored and frustrated by her parents not paying attention to her. Yael Ben-Ari's muse Berta is a fictional character inspired by Mark Ryden’s violent and surrealist painting “Rosie’s Tea Party”. The collection itself was meant to appear as if it was made by Berta. The garments visually express the mangled dolls, the cuts and the surrealist world created to escape from everyday life.

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2005 Momoko Hashigami

Returning to myself / Ritorno a me stessa

2005 Momoko Hashigami

Current position:

Own line COINONIA with Kiho Kim

concept title:

Returning to myself

Concept:

Momoko's clothes recall old memories of her past. Her favourite worn out toys, a bird she had when she was a child, garments she used to wear. Objects and environments we come across during our lives, left behind as we go on, remain in our minds as memories and emotions. These are the fragments the outfits are made out of. Torn, stressed fabrics represent past shocks and traumas. Hand-stitched quilting represents love and affection. A complete dress, rooted in such a construction philosophy, represents the all about oneself.

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Nel 2005, Kiho Kim, altro finalista di ITS, ha lavorato da Antonio Marras.

Nel 2006 anche Momoko ha avuto la possibilità di lavorare con Marras, ed è stata invitata in Sardegna per presentare i suoi lavori in una mostra. Qui Mikhail Kusnirovich, imprenditore russo della società Bosco dei Ciliegi a cui racconta le sue difficoltà economiche: Momoko voleva infatti continuare con un master alla Central st. Martins ma non ne aveva la possibilità. Mikhail, con un gesto molto generoso, le ha staccato immediatamente un assegno per pagare i suoi studi. Marras, dal canto suo, la invita a lavorare da lui dopo la fine degli studi.

Kiho Kim e Momoko Hashigami si sono poi messi insieme, celebrando il loro matrimonio in tre posti diversi nel mondo

 

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2015 Yuko Koike

Blooming flowers of japanese painting /
Fiori che sbocciano nei dipinti giapponesi

2015 Yuko Koike

Current position:

Own line YUKO KOIKE

concept title:

Blooming flowers of japanese painting

Concept:

Exploring Japanese kimonos and traditional paintings, of which the blooming flowers on the garments are a direct reference. By using delicate, bright colours and patterns to try to combine an effect of great movement with a solid appearance as a whole. Seeking to pursue and create a new aesthetic code by combining the warmth of Japanese handmade tradition with avant-garde techniques.

 

 

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Nel 2016 Yuko Koike ha sviluppato una Capsule Collection per i 30 anni di Diesel Japan. La capsule collection era ispirata alla collezione presentata a ITS 2015 - vincitrice del premio OTB Award.

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2006 Joan Tarragò Pampalona, Karen Scholz

Tripscils / Matite da viaggio

2006 Joan Tarragó Pampalona | Karen Scholz (Karene Zorione)

Current position:

Joan Tarragò - Graffiti artist and illustrator / Founder of Prophesy Brothers online gallery
Karen Scholz - Own line Zexea Swimwear / Owner of Les 3 Graces Biarritz Concept Boutique

concept title:

Tripscils

Concept:

Stencils, graffiti and the ability to communicate powerful messages to the public. Joan and Karen's idea was to transfer this style to clothes. They created outfits the wearer can interact with by writing or drawing, leaving traces of their own life. Joan interacted with Karen’s clothes with screen-printing, textile pens, sewing and spraying, hoping to stimulating the wearer to continue drawing and personalising.

Elements of communication and play come together in a synthesis: while waiting for a bus in the city, one can spread the jacket on the ground and play the board game drawn on the inside. Simple words in different languages were stitched in the lining of the pockets, for a travelling, metropolitan man or woman living in a globalised world.

 

 

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Sono venuti di persona dalla Spagna per portare il suo portfolio

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2015 Shay Tako

In the beginning / In principio

2015 Shay Tako

Current position:

External Designer for Swatch

concept title:

IN THE BEGINNING

Concept:

“In the Beginning, God Created” says the bible. Shay Tako wants us to consider how often, in recent decades, human beings have been implicitly replacing the word “God” with “Man”, highlighting humanity’s ability to create in this era of genetic and biological engineering. It raises many thoughts and speculations regarding the future, of which Shay’s collection is a reflection. At the same time, it looks at the dramatic cultural shift we’ve experienced: in the beginning of the 20th century it was acceptable to think that every culture stands on its own. Today the common assumption is just the opposite: it seems that at the end all humanity will unite into one mega global culture.

 

 

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