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 solely devoted to a extra sustainable and truthful vogue system. State of Vogue is the successor to Arnhem Vogue Biennial. I am very glad to be a part of it with my work Dwelling Color!
The style and textile trade belongs to probably 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 The style and attire system is outdated, nonetheless working to a Twentieth-century mannequin constructed on exploitation of individuals and earth’s sources, celebrating individualism, glamour and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 provide at even decrease prices and implement extra fast life cycles, presenting disastrous penalties for society and the setting. This has to alter.
How can the imaginative, seductive and modern energy of vogue play a job in making the style system extra resilient?
There’s a want for vogue to turn out to be related and resilient once more, and to take itself critically, not solely by producing garments in a round and socially accountable manner, but additionally 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 big manufacturing unit corridor is split into 5 major exhibition areas. Massive-scale vogue homes and designers equivalent to G-Star RAW, H&M and Zegna will current their imaginative and prescient on a sustainable future alongside modern start-ups and designers equivalent to 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 Dwelling 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 forth.) for the transition to a sustainable vogue system and a round society. Kukka is invited to take part on this analysis challenge which could be very thrilling since it is not all the time straightforward for designers to attach with scientists.
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| State of Vogue LAB part at Milkfactory Arnhem |
With a purpose to obtain a type of ‘aesthetic sustainability’, the sub-project Dwelling Colors I’m engaged on focuses on the round lifetime of color, and particularly: the probabilities of a brand new color palette improvement 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 desperate 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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| Dwelling Colors by Kukka offered at State of Vogue |
CATALOGUE
See your entire catalogue of the State of Vogue exhibition 2018 right here, with our challenge on pages 206-209.