Every week in the past the brand new exhibition State of Vogue; Looking for the New Luxurious opened in Arnhem. The exhibition and accompanying occasions are completely devoted to a extra sustainable and truthful style system. State of Vogue is the successor to Arnhem Vogue Biennial. I am very joyful to be a part of it with my work Residing Color!
The style and textile business belongs to essentially the most polluting industries of our planet. The style and attire system is outdated, nonetheless working to a Twentieth-century mannequin constructed on exploitation of individuals and earth’s sources, celebrating individualism, glamour and the ‘star designer’. There is a steady race to supply at even decrease prices and implement extra fast life cycles, presenting disastrous penalties for society and the surroundings. This has to vary.
How can the imaginative, seductive and progressive energy of style play a task in making the style system extra resilient?
There’s a want for style to grow to be related and resilient once more, and to take itself critically, not solely by producing garments in a round and socially accountable approach, but in addition through the use of its energy to examine a greater world. Vogue ought to use its seductive energy to redefine what magnificence and luxurious entail within the twenty first century.
Looking for the New Luxurious explores new definitions of luxurious in response to pressing environmental and social points: much less waste and air pollution, extra equality, welfare and inclusiveness.
The exhibition is constructed round these 8 key phrases in an previous industrial constructing, the Milkfactory in Arnhem. The massive manufacturing facility corridor is split into 5 essential exhibition areas. Massive-scale style homes and designers resembling G-Star RAW, H&M and Zegna will current their imaginative and prescient on a sustainable future alongside progressive start-ups and designers resembling Bruno Pieters, Osklen, Viktor & Rolf and Iris van Herpen.
THE FUTURE OF LIVING MATERIALS
The exhibition additionally creates a platform for the interdisciplinary challenge The Way forward for Residing Supplies arrange by ArtEZ Future Makers with Wageningen College & Analysis (WUR). The challenge investigates and develops new ‘dwelling’ supplies (e.g. bio-based supplies, textiles from micro-organisms, and so on.) for the transition to a sustainable style system and a round society. Kukka is invited to take part on this analysis challenge which may be very thrilling since it is not at all times straightforward for designers to attach with scientists.
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| State of Vogue LAB part at Milkfactory Arnhem |
In an effort to obtain a type of ‘aesthetic sustainability’, the sub-project Residing Colors I’m engaged on focuses on the round lifetime of color, and particularly: the probabilities of a brand new color palette growth by biodesign (e.g. color of micro organism). So far we have collaborated with professors, post-doc and grasp college students from WUR to analysis optimum development circumstances for our micro organism, methods to create patterns on textile and prospects of up scaling our biodyeing course of. It’s nice to see that after sharing our story, extra persons are desirous to get on board.
We current the outcomes of our new supplies analysis & course of within the part at State of Vogue (STOF) LAB. For this new analysis we examined our bacterial dyeing course of on many various supplies, like wool, viscose, Tencel and polyester.
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| Residing Colors by Kukka introduced at State of Vogue |
CATALOGUE
See the whole catalogue of the State of Vogue exhibition 2018 right here, with our challenge on pages 206-209.