MORPHOSIS

Pattern, decoration, fashion, architecture, to repeat or not to repeat?

Hosted by LAURENTIUS LAB and DONKTECH at FASHION TECH FARM

This project is now archived and was part of DDW22

Event type

Exhibition

Location

West

Fashion Tech Farm

Zeelsterstraat 80

5652EL

Maquette and xxperimental tessellated dress

Matthijs Vertooren, Marina Toeters, Loe Feijs

We know that there are 7 groups for frieze patterns, 17 for wallpaper, and 28 for tessellations. But how can we apply them in contemporary design? Can we draw inspiration from Escher's well-known metamorphosis woodcuts? Can we connect fashion and architecture in this way?

Repeat patterns

Both fashion and architecture have a tradition of deploying repeat patterns such as frieze patterns, wallpaper patterns and tessellations. Traditionally, the pattern is fixed, and then cut-off at the corners or at the stitch lines. But can we morph from one pattern to another? Can we consider a building or a dress to be a cylinder rather than a flat plane?

Playful crossover

We show work in progress, a playful crossover. We morph from one pattern to another, from a weave to a knit, from a virus to a pied-de-poule. The morphed pattern can go round. We demonstrate this in a maquette of a possible future FASHION TECH FARM building where the morph goes around the building. The same principles are tested for fashion: dresses and tops. Joint work with Matthijs Vertooren (Donktech) and Marina Toeters (by-wire.net).

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LAURENTIUS LAB and DONKTECH at FASHION TECH FARM
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About LAURENTIUS LAB and DONKTECH at FASHION TECH FARM

LAURENTIUS LAB is the label for the creative activities of Loe Feijs who works in FASHION TECH FARM, at TU/e ID and in studio LAURENTIUS LAB. in Sittard. Most projects are about innovative fashion in which FASHION is combined with MATHEMATICS and ALGORITHMS in a multi-disciplinary way.