MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK 2012 · Multidisciplinary transversal process VAILLO+IRIGARAY ARCHITECTS & ALVARNO ENSEMBLE

Man as a mold: architecture, textures and microarchitectures
- The collection is generated from the desire to capture the magical moments of the change of state of water: transformation into gas or ice
- Atmospheres of smoke, mist and mist condense into micro-architectures that adapt to the body
- Archaic textile traditions are frozen with new materials through R&D&I technological alliances

 

V + I A breaks into the world of haute couture hand in hand with ALVARNO for the submission of an innovating collection based on the immaterialness of the liquid and gaseous atmospheres  by offering frozen images of archaic textile traditions carried out by materials coming from other cultural worlds.

VAÍLLO+IRIGARA ARCHITECTS   proposes a transversal creativity strategy in the way of doing, trough connections with designers from other areas of arts, industry and culture, manifesting the permanent dissolution of the artistic barriers and  promoting the intersectoral cooperation.

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VAÍLLO+IRIGARA ARCHITECTS, from a constructive angle and the permanent research between material and shape, addresses a new reflection about scale applied in this case to the world of creation in haute couture: It is not about designing costumes but about attaching micro-architectures adaptable to human, so that woman becomes a mould of its own inhabiting: an air bubble, frozen in its movement, proposes the liquid iconography for this collection, closer to the immaterial world of the material-jellyfishes, drops of liquid glass, clouds or glimpses of ice-…