Designer Heather Goldberg founded Shadowplay: a hand-knit jewelry line taking cues from “oceanic aragonite structures, planetary space, crystal formations, spiderwebs, and the concept of making the abstractly invisible visible”. Being mindful of her material sources, Heather uniquely hand-crafted her knits using organic, naturally dyed yarns, and Certified Fair Trade black silver closures, with Swarovski crystals dotting the amorphous, kelp-like neckpieces.

Read how Heather Goldberg started Shadowplay here.

Images courtesy of Shadowplay

Studio Aisslinger recently released a brand new furniture collection combining new high-tech applications to traditional stitching techniques. The result is the NETwork stitching furniture edition which transformed a 2-dimensional embroidered textile into 3D pop-up objects.

The latest 3D textile pop-up technology is an empirical research-result developed with a traditional German manufacturer in Plauen, a region with a long tradition in stitching and embroidery. The combination of experimental design with a hidden traditional production is always a challenge for designers and an exciting field for new concepts. Nowadays the know-how of specialized technologies is more often found in the supplying industries than in the design brands themselves.

the process:
the volumes are first translated with software into 2d projections of themselves that can be directly programmed  into the machines that stitch the pattern into a carrying surface. The carrying surface is then dissolved and the embroidered 2d pattern becomes free to form a 3d object.  The objects formed by  the stitched honeycomb structures are fixed over a fiberglass mould and impregnated with resin in order to make them rigid and constructive.

“Since Gaetano Pesce´s UP-collection from 1969, the switch of dimensions has been a challenge for designers and design concepts. The pieces from the NETwork edition – armchairs, stools and lamps – are  volumes carefully designed for later flattening with software support. The objects created are extremely light and transparent and they seem to flow in space as 3d textile meta-networks.” – werner aisslinger

Technical partner
gerber GmbH, Plauen, Germany

fabrics
kvadrat, Denmark

project team studio aisslinger
werner aisslinger, nicole losos, julene aguirre-bielschowsky,
verena stella gompf, johannes becker, gabriele gebert

Images courtesy of Werner Aisslinger

The little long-overdue compilation of Pleatfarm’s favorites is finally here! Plucked from the recent Fall/Winter 2010-11, the list of wearables are chosen for the designers’ ingenious and whimsical ways of exploring pleats, folds, and innovative materials, such as Viktor & Rolf‘s collar-to skirt pleated outfit; stuffed, twisted fabric by Comme des Garçons; weaving, undulating leather collars by Haider Ackermann; just to name a few.

Part II coming up!

Viktor & Rolf A/W 2010-2011

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Gabriele Colangelo A/W 2010-2011

collection inspired by the textures of rocks. just love the tangled plissé!

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Yohji Yamamoto A/W 2010-2011

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Rick Owens A/W 2010-2011

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Haider Ackermann A/W 2010-2011

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Lanvin A/W 2010-2011

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Gareth Pugh A/W 2010-2011

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Comme des Garçons A/W 2010-2011

Get your favorite looks from your favorite designers at farfetch.com

images via style.com

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Boys and girls, hone your imagination with Rad Hourani’s recent unisex series of vests or scarves, or whatever you want to call it! Check out his e-shop.

Spanish fashion designer Amaya Arzuaga is inspired by the notion of metamorphosis for her Spring 2010 collection. Each dress connotes the transformation of a chrysalis to a butterfly, and the collection is rife with dramatic origamic folds and pleated tulle shaped into fans and spirals. Amaya also toys with opacity and translucency to suggest skin vs. motion, cocoons vs. butterfly wings. Overall, this is a spectacular collection! Click for more images below for your viewing pleasure:

Photo credit: Tomy Pelluz

Designer Liza Rietz has a new fall/winter collection consisting of dresses with voluminous and asymmetrical drapes. You can make a purchase via her Etsy shop.