Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Degradation as design

Hussein Chalayan's, 'The Tangent Flows'.




In his graduate project, “The Tangent Flows”, Hussein Chalayan explored death and degradation as themes of design.

Chalayan buried his garments in advance of his final show, allowing a chaotic design process to take place. He makes clothes metamorphose and changes conventional attitudes towards formal beauty or structure