Graduation Project: Tender Loving Care (2024)
Tender Loving Care
Graduation Project 2024
Transformation Design
Honours (Visual Culture)
BA Design
Willem de Kooning Academy
In today’s world of mass production and overconsumption, we have lost the love and connection to our clothes. How would your relationship with your clothes change if they were alive and needed your care?
My project invites you to reflect on this question and challenges you to reconsider your consumption habits and their impact on our environment. By fostering a sense of responsibility and affection for our clothing, we can take meaningful steps towards a more sustainable future.
“Tender Loving Care” addresses the pressing issue of textile waste from the fashion industry. Using the concept of anthropomorphism, I created a dress made with living moss, encouraging us to care for our clothes. This approach cultivates a deeper bond between wearers and garments, promoting sustainable fashion and reducing textile waste.
Explore how nurturing a living garment can transform our habits and lead to a more environmentally conscious future. My work offers an inspirational perspective on the intersection of fashion, sustainability, and our connection to nature.
Graduation Project 2024
Transformation Design
Honours (Visual Culture)
BA Design
Willem de Kooning Academy
“How is your relationship with your clothes?“
In today’s world of mass production and overconsumption, we have lost the love and connection to our clothes. How would your relationship with your clothes change if they were alive and needed your care?
My project invites you to reflect on this question and challenges you to reconsider your consumption habits and their impact on our environment. By fostering a sense of responsibility and affection for our clothing, we can take meaningful steps towards a more sustainable future.
“Tender Loving Care” addresses the pressing issue of textile waste from the fashion industry. Using the concept of anthropomorphism, I created a dress made with living moss, encouraging us to care for our clothes. This approach cultivates a deeper bond between wearers and garments, promoting sustainable fashion and reducing textile waste.
Explore how nurturing a living garment can transform our habits and lead to a more environmentally conscious future. My work offers an inspirational perspective on the intersection of fashion, sustainability, and our connection to nature.
Process
Image linked to Miroboard
Material Research
With the help of Living Lab, I managed to experiment with different organic materials such as kombucha scoby, wool, chia seeds, moss and bio-plastic
With the help of Living Lab, I managed to experiment with different organic materials such as kombucha scoby, wool, chia seeds, moss and bio-plastic
Design Sketch
I took the design motive from wedding dresses because they symbolise relationships. But I designed it to be more wearable with a detachable train.
I took the design motive from wedding dresses because they symbolise relationships. But I designed it to be more wearable with a detachable train.
Making process
At first, I needed a base layer for moss to be attached to and spread out over time.
I decided on loosely knitted fabric since it has bigger holes to provide ventilation for the dress.
I knitted the base layer dress with a mix of cotton and wool to provide structure and nutrients to moss.I knitted panels with a knitting machine and linked them into a dress shape with a linker.
To attach moss to the dress, I used the hand-stith technique since the base layer is stretchy so fabric glue would not work.
I sewed moss one by one with my hands for 4 weeks straight. I used 4 different kinds of moss- Icelandic moss, Reindeer moss, Plat moss and Ball moss.
At first, I needed a base layer for moss to be attached to and spread out over time.
I decided on loosely knitted fabric since it has bigger holes to provide ventilation for the dress.
I knitted the base layer dress with a mix of cotton and wool to provide structure and nutrients to moss.I knitted panels with a knitting machine and linked them into a dress shape with a linker.
To attach moss to the dress, I used the hand-stith technique since the base layer is stretchy so fabric glue would not work.
I sewed moss one by one with my hands for 4 weeks straight. I used 4 different kinds of moss- Icelandic moss, Reindeer moss, Plat moss and Ball moss.
Photoshoot
Sony Digital Camera, Ricoh FF9
Visual Director: Hansol Park
Photographer: Hansol Park
Hair and Makeup: Hansol Park
Edit: Hansol Park
Location Manager: Kim Feline
Model: Yeoni Park
Sony Digital Camera, Ricoh FF9
Visual Director: Hansol Park
Photographer: Hansol Park
Hair and Makeup: Hansol Park
Edit: Hansol Park
Location Manager: Kim Feline
Model: Yeoni Park
Results
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2024