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The Design Museum announces nominees for the sixth annual Designs of the Year
The Design Museum announces the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. They include the best designs from around the world in the last 12 months across seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of distinguished nominators, the awards compile the most original and exciting designs, prototypes and designers in the world today – brought together in a Design Museum exhibition from 20 March – 7 July 2013. Nominees for the fashion category include:
ANNA KARENINA COSTUMES – Designed by Jacqueline Durran
Two million dollars’ worth of Chanel diamonds and vintage Balenciagainspired dresses are just a few of the finishing touches costume designer Jacqueline Durran dreamt up for Keira Knightley’s fur-wrapped character in Joe Wright’s 2012 film adaptation of the 1877 Tolstoy novel.
A/W12 WOMENSWEAR – Designed by Giles Deacon
Made up of a number of gowns, each with their own intricate mood, Deacon combines ideas of death with the exuberance and decadence of life. Flowing skirts and tight restricted arms meet layers of what looks like torn ribbons of silk, built up into floor length dresses.
LOUIS VUITTON COLLECTION – Designed by Yayoi Kusama
Bold and playful, the collection features the artist’s signature bold spots – which cover every item, from bags to dresses. The range is the house’s most significant artist collaboration since it teamed up with Stephen Sprouse in 2001 to create his now-iconic graffiti bags.
DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL – Directed by Lisa Immordino
Called ‘the Empress of fashion’, Diana Vreeland’s (1903-1989) impact on fashion and style in her time was legendary. With 350 illustrations, including many famous photographs by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and other major fashion photographers, this film shows fashion as it was being invented.
I WANT MUSCLE – Directed by Elisha Smith-Leverock
Witty and glamorous, I Want Muscle is a personal 2 minute portrait of female body-builder Kizzy Vaines. Focusing on the attitudes of others to the idea of female body building and the compulsion to push the body to extremes.
AW12 COLLECTION – Designed by Craig Green
Playing with ideas of utility and function, the large wooden structures in this collection have connotations of religious pilgrimage. Inspired by luggage carriers, the huge structures dwarf the models and create abstract, almost menacing silhouettes. Each colour outfit has an exact replica outfit in black, which walks behind it as a ‘shadow’ on the catwalk.
COMMES DE GARCONS RTW A/W12 – Designed by Rei Kawakubo
Kawakubo plays with the idea of 2D shapes, in this collection. Large and flat, the pieces integrate elegant and simplistic curves in bright reds and pinks.
CHRISTIAN DIOR RTW S/S13 – Designed by Raf Simons
For Simons’ first collection for Dior, he explored the ideas of sex and freedom combining minimalism with sensuality and silhouette exploration.
PRADA S/S12 RTW COLLECTION – Designed by Miuccia Prada
Influenced by the Chevrolet and 1950s style, this collection saw a return to the bourgeois taste first set out in the nineties.
PROENZA SCHOULER A/W12 COLLECTION – Designed by Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough
This collection opened up to a rougher and more dangerous look with a structured toughness. Integrating modes of protection, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough experimented with padding and quilting and took inspiration from different forms of fighting such as samurai, fencing, kendo and martial arts.
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