Beginnings of Autumn / Winter 2010 Ready to Wear, Jo-Elle Tan

My initial point of inspiration

The focus of my collection was surrounding the idea of pursuit versus restriction.

These are some initial sketches I quickly came up with, exploring and manipulating ways to bind the female form. 

Corsetry was the first stop.

Redefining Materiality : Some of my favorite artists

"The visual system is not organized to generate a veridical representation of the physical world, but rather a statistical reflection of the visual history of individual observer"-Purves and Lotto, 2003

PETER CALLESSEN:

Callessen’s work explores sculpture through unexpected frail material such as paper. By integrating paper into his work, He deconstructs the meaning of materiality and functionality by conveying messages through form. 

Peter Callessen, Three Angels Trying to Escape Their Drawing, 2007

Peter Callessen, Birds trying to escape their drawing, 2005

Sandra Backlund

Sandra Bucklund morphs the human silhouette by referencing the organic and creating structural forms through garment. 

Her use of knitwear to create repetitive forms, highlight the human form with unique construction techniques.

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Emma Hack:

Emma Hack, a skin illustrator, looks at camouflage as a form of illusion. Working with Florence Broadhurst, a wallpaper designer, they work together transforming the human body by blending it into the environment.

Emma Hack, Wallpaper Kabuki Feline, 2008

Emma Hack, Wallpaper Spotted Floral, 2008

Gareth Pugh:

Gareth Pugh is a London designer who's work features inflatable garments, geometric shapes, the colors black and white.

In his 2009 Ready to Wear collection, he presented a duality nature of his garments by using white at the front of the outfits and black on the back. Pugh talks about his work saying that it represented the notion of emerging from the darkness. His work focuses around the inescapable protection as he refers to historical clothing such as medieval wear. In some garments, Pugh creates a reptilian surface, representing the idea of camouflage, protecting the internal.

Gareth Pugh, Spring 2009, Ready To Wear

It binds you, it protects you

2010 Jewellery Work

Matter Matters

Matter after life: Encasing the Body and Skin

What happens to our body after we die? The way I see it, it never leaves this planet.

No matter the level of decomposition, the particle that was once part of our body as a whole, still encompass a part of us which is unique.

Skin; Though we may shed thousands of skin cells everyday, each cell holds our identity,  such as a single puzzle piece fits a puzzle.