Whilst being in London buying fabric i decided to go to the design museum as i knew the Hussein Chalayan exhibition was on. It was so interesting....the garments he had designed were absolutely amazing! He is renowned for an innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and a progressive attitude to new technology! His work is motivated by ideas drawn from disciplines not readily associated with fashion, crossing between anthropology, history, science, philosophy and technology. A design that really stood out to me was the 'Inertia'. (picture above) Speed has become the essence of every area of life! This collection was envisaged as a sequence, beginning with the clothes carrying images of a car components and body cavities. The body became the 'event' of a crash where garments caught in the midst of speed embodied the cause and effect of a crash in one moment, with garments bearing images of wrecked cars and number plates.
Hussein Chalayan is truely one of the most visionary designers working in fashion today!!
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