Seeing as I've just done a post on a piece of deign I hate it felt only natural for me to follow this with a piece of design I love, just for the sake of maintaining balance in my life / blog.
I spend so much time on here now they're pretty much the same thing :P
I first mentioned the Bubelle dress by Lucy McRae in this post here and I just found the original video I was looking to share with you. I love the way McRae has managed to combine design innovations for both fashion and technology. Scientific developments have a great impact on modern culture and I admire when fashion is approached as an artistic representation of that.
McRae was trained as both a classical ballerina and an architect, which is what sparked her fascination with reshaping the human body. She's recently created a swallowable perfume; taken as a capsule which works from the inside out - releasing a biologically enhanced odour as a person sweats. Fragrance molecules are emitted through the skin creating a unique fragrance which is determined by a person's acclimation to an increased body temperature via triggers such as stress or physical activity. Lucy's also recently branched out into making short films including a music video for an Australian synth-pop band 'Rat vs. Possum' (is there no end to her awesomeness?) You can check out more of Lucy McRae's work on her website here.
A lot of McRae's work looks to what she thinks life will be like in the future; I think that's what excites me most, her work feels so special and ahead of it's time. Much of fashion these days is drawn from retro revival, and whilst I can still look to the past for inspiration and respect how design has evolved, what I'm most excited about it creating something new and maybe even a little unusual. So far all the work I've done has been very pretty, controlled and highly conventional. I'm hoping that my time on this degree course will allow me to look into new waves of design and inspire me into creating something that excites me in the same way as when I look at Lucy McRae's work.
McRae was trained as both a classical ballerina and an architect, which is what sparked her fascination with reshaping the human body. She's recently created a swallowable perfume; taken as a capsule which works from the inside out - releasing a biologically enhanced odour as a person sweats. Fragrance molecules are emitted through the skin creating a unique fragrance which is determined by a person's acclimation to an increased body temperature via triggers such as stress or physical activity. Lucy's also recently branched out into making short films including a music video for an Australian synth-pop band 'Rat vs. Possum' (is there no end to her awesomeness?) You can check out more of Lucy McRae's work on her website here.
A lot of McRae's work looks to what she thinks life will be like in the future; I think that's what excites me most, her work feels so special and ahead of it's time. Much of fashion these days is drawn from retro revival, and whilst I can still look to the past for inspiration and respect how design has evolved, what I'm most excited about it creating something new and maybe even a little unusual. So far all the work I've done has been very pretty, controlled and highly conventional. I'm hoping that my time on this degree course will allow me to look into new waves of design and inspire me into creating something that excites me in the same way as when I look at Lucy McRae's work.
Collaboration work: Lucy & Bart, via google images.
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