Flora Miranda - Deep Web

Flora Miranda presented her Spring/Summer 2019 collection “Deep Web” during Paris Haute Couture Week.

'Deep Web' collection is Flora’s visualization of her very own approach to the idea of ‘Machine Learning’ and is dedicated to explaining the process of teaching a machine what clothing is and how it is produced.

Flora Miranda 'Deep Web' Supercut from Flora Miranda on Vimeo.

Inspired by American transgender artist Amanda Lepore’s image, each design of the collection plays with feminine body shape. The dresses generically reproduce the most stereotypical, current image of 'femininity', playing upon the strict categorisation a computer implies, and the way computers deal with a fine variety of genders. With Lepore’s unique shape, Flora gives the computer a model to learn with, while teaching it how clothing works.
Flora Miranda has teamed up with the Internet artist Signe Pierce who will perform in front of an informative keynote presentation composed by the Swiss artist Simone C. Niquille.

Flora Miranda is an Austrian fashion designer, based in Antwerp/Belgium. Throughout her work she explores physical border experiences that take place in a virtual or actual reality.

http://floramiranda.com

Photography courtesy: Laetitia Bica

Te[ch]x(t)iles at MOTI

Pauline van Dongen

Te[ch]x(t)iles is a project by MOTI, investigating innovation and technical developments in the area of fashion.
The project Te[ch]x(t)iles runs simultaneously with exhibition Couture Graphique. Ten designers have been asked by MOTI, in collaboration with Stimuleringsfonds voor de Creatieve Industrie (Stimulation Fund for the Creative Industry), to show their vision on the future of fashion.

15 February - 25 March: Rianne Suk & Jacob Kok

26 March - 29 April: Hendrik-Jan Grievink/Coralie Vogelaar & Sabine Staartjes
30 April - 3 June: Bas Kosters & Marius 't Eynde

4 June - 8 July: Antoine Peters & Iris Nijenhuis

9 July - 8 August: Anne Stooker & Berber Soepboer

Te[ch]x(t)iles is open until the 8th of August
http://www.motimuseum.nl

Marga Weimans - Body Archive collection

Marga Weimans had the honour to close down the 18th edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week in style with her new couture collection called Body Archive. The collection is a mixture of fashion, art and technology.

"DNA is how you really are, what you truly believe and what your unique shape is." 

Marga Weimans uses these words in the intro film that is projected before the show.
On the background screen of the catwalk we see flickering computer DNA a la The Matrix. In this conceptual collection models are wearing huge cubes, leggings, short dresses and we see colorful graphic prints which were based on her own DNA code.
Hate it or love it, Marga Weimans is pushing the boundaries of fashion. I have always been intrigued by her work.

http://www.margaweimans.com/