It is rare that someone proposes a project that takes us in a completely unexpected direction and that, although forcing us into a difficult confrontation with our techniques and creativity, in the end is exactly the project that we had been needing for a while. But this is exactly what happens when we work with young student fashion designers.
Here is a snapshot of the world that we enter into when we collaborate with young fashion designers. First there is the creation of the concept for the future collection, drawing lines and shapes, establishing colors, selecting fabrics and materials and developing variations of each individual garment for a future collection. Then there is the creation of the prototype of the garment and any fashion accessories, which must be sewed (sometimes with the help of seamstresses and designers who do prototypes) to evaluate the final effect of the creation and make the necessary corrections accordingly. Next it’s time to work with the model(s) to get the right movements and attitude and then with the make-up artist, choreographer, lighting technician and sound engineer so that the creation is presented in the best way possible on the catwalk. All of this of course within a completely frenetic environment, in which working hours require complete flexibility.
Despite the exertion required to reach the end result, when we witness the fashion-sculpture that we have created becoming one with the garment, worn by a model and therefore transformed yet again, it is probably among the biggest “wow” moments we have in our creative work.
2019 – Gina Grunwald, a young student from the Central Saint Martin School in London. For the White Show, the end-of-year fashion show put on by the school’s female students, Davide Dall’Osso created a horse head sculpture made of white polycarbonate and a horse body made of white braided iron wire as an accessory to the designer’s sculpture dress.
2015 – Rachele Tamburini, a very young fashion designer who graduated from NABA. For the creation of her first collection, named Crypto, the artist designed a collection of polycarbonate cast accessories for her. Today the designer has her own clothing line called TambOO.
