{"id":64865,"date":"2016-02-17T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=64865"},"modified":"2016-02-18T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:06:37","slug":"lfw-preview-lcf-ma-womenswear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2016\/02\/17\/lfw-preview-lcf-ma-womenswear\/","title":{"rendered":"LFW Preview: LCF MA Womenswear"},"content":{"rendered":"
Meet the LCF MA Womenswear grads who are set to take the industry by storm.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n What drew you to LCF?<\/strong><\/p>\n London is one of the most diverse metropolitan cities in the world, there is a glut of artistic atmosphere. The culture is more about freedom than in China. For the college, I think LCF is not only ready-to-wear but also reflective of a good sense of art. It more focuses on the technique, cutting and how to make a real garment.<\/p>\n What was the starting point for your MA collection?<\/strong><\/p>\n This collection presented a strong personal emotion, because it is based on my own personal experience. When I was a kid I was a really shy boy, I didn\u2019t want to talk to people. But when I was silent, I had thunder hidden inside.<\/p>\n I am quite interested in the contrast from the inside and outside. This is what I used to create and develop my collection. I call my\u00a0MA collection \u201cmute\u201d. I’m trying to present a spirit called \u201cdepth of thinking.\u201d Mute doesn\u2019t mean keeping silence or we just need to be Uncle Tom when facing reality. It shows a concept that hoping to speak right to customers’ hearts without saying a word. Silence means more than words in the current situation. \u201cTruth can only be understood than talk.\u201d It shows an attitude to face our imperfect life and also enjoy each tricky part.<\/p>\n How did it develop?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>When I started to develop this collection I met with huge problems: how to use garment language to communicate the sound art and the silent mood, how to use a gentle way to show a rich visual effect. I recorded a lot of different sounds waves, such as violent quarrel, natural sounds, noise, and gentle conversation to find the difference from these voices, using these different undulating lines to support my silhouette. I also tried a really fresh cutting structure, using one cutting line to combine the same space with the extra space to show a rich layering visual effect. All of these design ideas, which are based on the sound structure and the mood when the people stay alone. For me I really like the sportswear and functional details. In this collection, It related the stylish items: 1980s influences iconic functional garments, such as: denim jacket, bomber jacket, oversized parkas, slogan shirt to redefine and fuse the classical outdoor functional details, to explore a new girly sporty and casual silhouette.<\/p>\n What sort of details can we expect?<\/strong><\/p>\n There are multiple wearing ways in one garment, which provides the wearers with more choices. Not only put the emphasis on the surface but also the inside. For the details, it highlights the functional and people\u2019s emotion feeling. Every garment is reversible, each side is totally different. It combined very simple and very complicated looks in one garment. The detachable details are another highlights such as the collar the hood or the pocket, people can depend their own aesthetics to wear the clothing. These provided some different way to the wearers. Approaching the inspiration, I explored some embossing technique, the rubber slogan stamps the braille labels: \u2018Mute\u2019, \u2018silence is luxurious\u2019 to tell a story. I do cherish the imagination and creation from life, to let people touch, feels, and love themselves. The different sensory haptic material, such as the coated silicon poppers and some different functional fabrics such as the quilted, windproof, w embossed slogan ater-repellent,\u00a0bonded fabrics. These different materials interact with the human\u2019s touch feeling.<\/p>\n What songs did you have on repeat creating the collection?<\/strong><\/p>\n When I design this collection I always listen \u201cmusique concrete\u201d. The music gives me a lot of imagination, because all of the raw sound is come from the real life, just like my collection all of the details come from different daily life.<\/p>\n What\u2019s your favourite look?<\/strong><\/p>\n It is really difficult to pick one favorite look. In my collection, all of the garments are my favorite. The collection showed my own style very well, modern sporty and causal with very strong functional details. I think every piece is really easy to mix and match with each other.<\/p>\n I think maybe the quilted long coat with the sheer knitted pants and knitting? This look combined a muted palette of blue colour: sky royal and navy, it looks like the night, peaceful. As the same time the polyester fabric with different sheen created a sense of science and technology. Refer to the mute button\u2019s colour, I used really bright and high contrast mango and sunset yellow on the details. Flashed in the banding inside or the little element of the garments, such as the bottom of collar, the pocket flap, the zippers or the rubber slogans. These mango colour or sunset yellow embellish the different blue, made the garment stand out from other autumn\/winter collection, while keep the whole collection harmonious, looks more sporty and sophisticated leisure-luxe.<\/p>\n What are your hopes for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n I hope to create my own studio, which should be a theme studio or a manufacturing factory. I will put emphasis on direct, not artificial, slow and steadies design. This starkly contrasts today\u2019s Mc Fashion approach, i.e., fast, generic clothing. For the reason, when I go back to China for my final collection, the studios and companies only focus on making money and not on the details or designs so I really want to create a studio to help new designers to create their own designs.<\/p>\nAlexandru Tunsu<\/strong><\/h2>\n