The Redress Design Award presents it's Grand Final tonight and I cannot wait to see the collections the designers have created this year (click here for a behind the scenes look at the finalists' fashion shoot). I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the finalists, Ganit Goldstein from Israel, whose designs and use of secondhand garments inspired me. I wish her luck this evening.
Can you
share a little about your background? When did your interest in fashion begin
and why?
I graduated
this July from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel. My
field of research is in innovation in fashion and textiles. I am inspired and
driven by the idea of creating new garments by combining traditional crafts and
new technology together. These paradoxical tools and mentalities break all the
rules, and allow me to explore never-before-explored territories.
My love and
passion for the arts, crafts and design started at a very young age. For as
long as I can remember, my designs were led by curiosity. My design
process begins with me touching the material, then playing, cutting, and
pinning together to see what happens. During my
studies, I have established a very strong connection to materials, traditional
craft techniques, and 3D design software and printing. This diverse
tool box, that I picked up from a very young age, has helped me to develop my
individual thinking process and designs. At the same time, the
values I have absorbed growing up in Israel, continue to lead my way.
Knowing what we do about the impact of fashion on our environment, as a
designer how will you contribute to the future of the fashion industry?
In recent years, fashion has opened up towards different technologies and different design disciplines, such as 3D printing, combination of Industrial design software for developing new methods of textile, and incorporating the use of special materials. This provides a designer with a much more diverse tool-box: a computer mouse, parametric design and 3D designing software. As well as pencils, fabrics, and strings etc.
Those values in this diverse tool box, alongside textile development in the field of fashion, enhances my creativity and enables me to go beyond with my imagination. This creates new ideas through feelings and experimental processes. During my studies I was interested in fash-tech and smart textile field of design. I developed unique processes for 3D scanning (collaboration with Intel RealSense technology) and 3D printing.
What
changes would you like to see?
I believe that
the fashion industry will change along side the developments of cutting edge
technology, especially 3D scanning that will allow designers to fit, to
measure, and to tailor fashion using 3D printing based on the subject’s
body scan.
There are many pros for growing the
use of 3D printing. Some of the main benefits of 3D printing in fashion are the
reduction of manufacturing costs, the rise in efficiency, and the minimization
of pollution. I believe that creating a unique look for
each person is the future of fashion and will provide the personalization of
clothes. I believe that this is a ground-breaking approach in our age.
The 3D scan is a power multiplier. It gives us the ability to better exploit
the technology for the benefit of custom made clothing in a quick and easy way.
3D scans allow the creator to work directly on the model, rendering the need for
pattern making unnecessary. This way you can design far more interesting,
special, and different garments, in a shorter time, without being bound to the
traditional pattern making process.
In my final collection at Bezalel
Academy I picked up many techniques for 3D body scan and 3D printing that can
contribute to change of the fashion industry, bringing cutting edge technology
to our lives.
What was your
inspiration as you developed your collection?
My collection is about reconstructing and
rebuilding fabrics, inspired by the process of IKAT weaving. Last year, I was lucky to
be selected in an exchange student program in Tokyo, Japan. There, I
specialized in the technique of Ikat weaving, which is achieved by dying the
strings before the weaving process. When putting it together, the pattern
appears a bit blurry (because of the movement of the strings). My collection is about applying these
traditional concepts, and weaving colored strings in a manner that is in line with
my interpretations.
My collection focuses on developing new
textile methods. Using shredding machines that shred the clothes
to pieces, I turn it into a raw material that can be put together again in
order to make new cloth from old fabrics. I want to bring life into
something that is no longer in use. I am using different pieces of textiles to
provide a large variety of colors. Mixing these colors enables me to create and
design new, special patterns that remind me of the IKAT technique.
I love thrift shopping and secondhand clothing and I live to find vintage gems. Why did you decide to use secondhand garments?
All of of my
clothes are bought from secondhand shops, so it has always been a part of my
life to search for these unique and hidden pieces. I know that second
hand garments retain a beautiful quality and colors that I wanted to reuse in
my textiles. I believe that the world already has produced enough
garments, and that we do not need to make more. It makes the search more
personal to find a unique item that fits to your individual personality.
Describe your Redress Design Award
experience so far...
My experience
in Redress Design award so far is very exciting and I’m learning incredible new
things. I feel honored have been chosen to be a part this learning opportunity.
First of all – we are a very connected group, and I feel that we have a lot of
similarities in the way we think, our values and our way of designing. It is
very inspiring to be in such a great group and the Redress team is doing such
a professional work.
We have had
different challenges along our stay in HK. One of them was to design a shirt in
groups of 3-4 for The R Collective. As a part of this process, we visited the
TAL factory in Shenzhen, China. I have never been in such a large scale factory
so for me it was outstanding experience to see how it works.
A LIVE feed of the show can be accessed here. The show will begin at 6:30 pm Hong Kong time.
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