BLOG - SHOWTUNES. Re-inventing shoes - [Ay]Architecture. AA School Paris, Fall/ Winter 2013 AAtelier will seek to investigate processes via form and structural finding on footwear as an emerging practice within the world of design.
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The workshop will be informed by approaches and processes engaging with parameters such as materiality testing, parametrics, digital and physical experimentation, imbrications, gesture, manufacturing tactics and prototyping techniques. Analysing the footprint in a high heeled position, flat position, in motion, exchangeable configurations and relation to the ground will be observed and implemented onto unborn, unknown, unmade, unplug, unthinkable, unreal upcoming fields within the shoe design expertise. Agenda The Footwear Workshop will seek to engage with an encyclopedia of construction studies developing physical, aesthetic and structural elements related to the shoe agency; acquiring a higher degree of formal precision and spatial complexity, embracing micro and macro systems embodied within the shoe. Jean Paul GAULTIER Haute Couture printemps ete 2014 - Fashion Show Soundtrack by MODE-F. 2005/110/1 Book / clothes series, 'The Wizard of Jeanz' collection, Volumes 1-21, printed nylon / cotton / polyester / polyurethane / cardboard, designed by Hiroaki Ohya for Ohya Productions Inc, Japan, Spring / Summer 2001 - Powerhouse Museum Collection.
Object statement Book / clothes series, 'The Wizard of Jeanz' collection, Volumes 1-21, printed nylon / cotton / polyester / polyurethane / cardboard, designed by Hiroaki Ohya for Ohya Productions Inc, Japan, Spring / Summer 2001 Hiroaki Ohya (born 1970) trained at the Bunka fashion institute in Tokyo and on graduation was recruited by Miyake Design Studio to work as a designer.
"Although I was inevitably influenced by many other designers or brands such as Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garcons and Yohji Yamamoto, it was Miyake who had the biggest influence on me. Designing Bond's Look. Graduate Portfolios. Timeless Modern Tactile Functional.