Thin Strips of Metal and Spaghetti Connect in Architectural Collars and Headdresses
“Fabienne.” All photos © Alice Pegna, shared with permission
Paris-based designer and artist Alice Pegna revolves her follow round constructions. She’s involved with each the connection between particular person elements and the way a bigger framework responds to its setting, and her items are inclined to amplify the connection between adornment and the human physique. “The construction is an integral a part of the universe,” she tells Colossal. “It isn’t at all times seen, but at all times current, materials or immaterial, similar to our physique, our ideas, and our life.”
This curiosity culminates in her architectural physique of labor that’s comprised of sculptural clothes, headdresses, and equipment with sharp factors and acute angles. Beforehand working primarily with raw spaghetti, Pegna’s new assortment incorporates skinny strips of metallic that equally hug the wearer’s type with geometric element. The items had been created in collaboration with the Phoenix Various Mannequin affiliation for Paris Trend Week 2021 and worn by fashions with bodily disabilities to focus on their figures. All the works, that are photographed in opposition to stark black backdrops on minimal mannequins, depend on damaging area to change how the physique is seen with out obscuring it totally.
For extra of Pegna’s intricate constructions, go to her site and Instagram.
“Anna”
“Barbe”
“Crete”
“Clemence”
“Crete”
“Parure”
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