The International Range Plan Award has been created to celebrate and showcase the creative practice of a range plan illustration and recognizes the value it holds. We are keen to support International graduates communicating their planned final collection vision of garments and outfits through a line up or a range plan image. Meet the nominees below!
Deng Xin, Sichuan Fine Art Academy
My graduate work is based on three surveys which were conducted from November of 2019 to mid-March of 2020. These surveys covered explorations of future security inspection. In terms of silhouette, I prefer to make ready-to-wear clothes. It is formed more by various personalities. Each set of clothing tries to express the group represented by roles in a more personalised manner, thus they will have different shapes and colours, but they will share similar structures and elements to become a series.
Gabriele Larcher, Accademia Costume & Moda
X - eniac is the story of a journey, a time journey. Arrived in 2020, Xenia is no longer able to separate the real world from the virtual one. Slave to the machines, she clings frantically to memories of the past.
CHAPTER 1: LAMB ARMOR Medieval shapes such as the armours and the male Gonnella from fourteenth-century meets shearling, soft sheepskin suffocated by a metallic foil.
CHAPTER 2: SURVIVE The heraldry is reborn through the patchwork and from the mix of different clothes, the active knitwear is the contemporary armour for the time zero human. Prints and colours represent the confusion and the hyperconnectivity of this era, recycle is survive.
CHAPTER 3: ORGANIC BYTE Memories of a past naturalism contaminated by the inevitable technological advent, organic elements like leather and moiret fight with the new artificial reality. Are you ready for the present?
Heron Robinson, College for Creative Studies
Astro/Black is a representative of three of the main themes found across the Afro Futurist Art Movement. The three themes include that of water, alienation, and reclamation. Water represents both the erasure and the existence of black people and our histories. Alienation figures that black people were the first aliens on Earth due to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade through the Middle Passage. That is in being forcibly removed from our homeland to the Americas. Alienation’s other aspect is in the utilisation of black people as a tool to perform labor and to extract value from. Reclamation as a theme is in taking back what was taken from us as a people, our histories. It is both about recollecting the past and creating a new future. It is about being unapologetically black in a world dominated by the ideals of white supremacy.
Jai-Jhen Chung, Shih Chien University
Inside the dancing silhouette lies an endless secret with which desired to be entrusted. Puzzling entanglement, binding and loneliness cease fire under the wear of both healing and hurting through dancing. Protect the other half of darkness by means of pure vividness in the soul. Gradually relieving, untying and becoming lucid along the way. Striking balance with distress for eternity. This is dance therapy, a part of the psychological one.
Jingtong Guan, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
Individuals shape themselves under the premise of the existence of groups. Individuals cannot feel themselves from the perspective of bystanders. It is to realise self cognition and complete self-shaping by observing and learning the behaviour of others and self reflection. Individuals always enjoy the benefit of groups. The relationship between individuals and groups is an irreversible entanglement. People are closely intertwined, entangled with each other, and survive together. This relationship is called a social relationship. Human nature is not one’s inherent abstraction, this is the sum of all social relationships.
Pia Tholen, Pforzheim University School of Design
My degree collection „The End of Fashion“ envisions a new understanding of „collection coordinates“. It offers a range of interchangeable vestimentary shapes and extensions inspired by the principles of Bauhaus. Due to over-production and –consumption I pro- pose a sustainable contemporary ‘wardrobe (inter)play’ still expressing the fun for, with and through fashion. The most challenging parts had been the “connecting technology” still ensuring a comfortable t and beautifully draped looks. The modular system covers the entire product range from shirts, trousers, dresses up to coats and could be added depending on seasons and lifestyle.
Rosa FerraraI, UAD Academia della Moda
What is more surreal than mixing different eras, opposite styles, patterns and accessories reminiscent of the circus world, and all flavored by the personal unconscious and the desire to express yourself? The romantic and refined mime awed by the clown figure, which represents the mask of our times, the grotesque expression of life, in an atmosphere of visual and expressive surreality. There is no gender, there is no stereotype.
The leitmotif of the collection is the tragic CONTEX of a society without expression and above all without understanding towards those who need it most, in an unbridled individualism, where "nobody is a road companion but an antagonist of each.” Just like the Pirandellian humour, veiled in the collection, my Joker is aware of the great and silly masquerade carried on by all humanity and can only react with a loud laugh, always bitter and at times hysterical.
Sarah Mair, AMD Akademie Mode & Design
The collection The New Nomad focuses on the question of what life and society could look like in the year 2096. The failure of humanity is unequivocal. Many factors show us that our present way of life, won‘t be possible in the future any more. Already today, in 2020, several negative consequences for the world‘s population and the environment are visible. Global warming, resulting into climate extremes, pollution, human exploitation and destruction of nature, wars and consumer behaviour are just some of them. The fictional story of The New Nomad points out a possible dystopia that forces the people to adopt a nomadic lifestyle. To demonstrate the above-mentioned issues, the concept is based on sustainability. The goal of the gender neutral collection is to create avant-garde fashion, in which all materials are 100% upcycled. The whole collection is made out of used sails and climbing ropes.
Xiao Feng Lang, Chongqing University of Education
Brought by the urbanisation process is the rapid development of science and technology, but the disadvantage is obvious: and my series Design Under the Dome as the theme, to explore high tech the effect of this double-edged sword for people’s lives. How it will not only reflect the advantage of science and technology, and can reflect the constraints of technology, such as bow clan.
Zhijie Yao, Donghua University
This series is called "HELD YOU TO SLEEP", which is my reflection on "multi-wear" clothing and anti-crime design. It was inspired by the indiscriminate killings I experienced in Tokyo. I began to think about the reasons behind the indiscriminate killings, began to notice people's attitudes towards such an event, and began to explore what had happened to the killers.So I borrowed the world famous indiscriminately serial murder "clown killer" to express my thinking. I set the story as a boy who was bound by heavy clothes and slowly found his original self in his dream.Therefore, I decided to carry out a series of innovative designs on the clothing structure. First of all, by considering the possibility of clothing on the human body and the relationship between clothing and human body force point, a series of experiments were carried out, and it was found that large-scale garment pieces could be used to double fold or wrap on the human body to obtain a preliminary profile.