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CORSET / PROSTHESIS CORSETS / PROSTHESIS CORSETS/ BRACES RESEARCH CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT DESIGN PACKAGING CORPORATE IDENTITY COMMUNICATION (ART) HISTORY PATTERN MAKING CRAFTMANSHIP TAILORING SEWING TECHNIQUES MEASURING FORM AND VOLUME MEDICAL/ ORTHOPEDICS ART OBJECT SCULPTURE ACCESSORIES AVANT GARDE BRACES STUTS ARTIFICIAL LIMBS ORTHOTICS - prints - cover-ups - exchangable - personalised “Textile is a very important vector of emotions and memories.” Lidewij Edelkoort MATERIAL RESEARCH - bandages - haberdashery LOST/OLD TECHNIQUES - weaving (Ethel Stein) - embroidery - lace - smocking - ... Inspired by - the human body - traces (of transiency) - architecture - smart geometry - tectonic articulation - ... Studies have shown that it was linked to significant health risks and detrimen- tal to the woman’s overall well-being, causing breath- ing difficulties, cutting off ox- ygen to the brain and result- ing in that delicate damsel fainting, familiar to us now from Hollywood movies. “THE WAY PEOPLE DRESS, WHAT THEY WEAR, IS AN IMPORTANT PILLAR OF COMMUNICATION IN OUR SOCIETY” GERRIT-JAN VOS FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS fashion poses moodbook sketchbook presentation CULTURAL DIFFERENCES Suffer for beauty Why were women willing to take such measures to achieve the beauty ideals during their time — and what are we willing to do in ours. NICKY MYNY AN AESTHETIC ADDITION TO THE ORTHOPEDIC FUNCTION TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FEELING OF WELL-BEING. A CONTEMPORARY TRANSLATION OF THE SUFFER FOR BEAUTY. Kahlo decorated one of her many plaster corsets in 1951. That was the beginning of her career as an art- ist, because she spent about a year in bed, re- covering with all these plaster casts, corsets, and artifacts that were putting her body back to- gether. GRAPHIC DESIGN FASHION DESIGN TEXTILE DESIGN
