The unevenly self-braided and self-dyed rope is cast with the same materials set in silicone.
The pieces are made of pewter and steel encrusted with marble, raw quartz, metal teeth and Swarovski crystals that are reminiscent of extreme cold. Conceptually the collection evokes the spirit of exploration which is closely linked to such notions as identity and rite of passage. Climbing gear, survival equipment and various tools including ones from Inuit tribes and those dating back to the Ice Age are the main basis for the collection. “My EX90☀0′00′′ men’s jewellery collection is dedicated to polar expeditions.
We are at a point before everything and after everything, I quite wonder how long we will stay at this ‘point’ and which direction we will finally go.” Those things happened in old sci-fi films became reality, the world became one piece connected by internet. We approach the answer much more closely than ever before. The most exciting thing about the future, for me, is that I feel like we are in a turning point of human history, and also in a balance point between past and future. We start to create the new intelligent creature who may has the same level or probably higher level of intelligence than human kind itself by using technology and science, we explore the universe from the beginning to the end and try to find out the answer of life.
I started to think about how to use a garment to express the concept of ‘process’, a period of time, by designing space (the garment for me is a concept of space).
When we say ‘process’, it is a concept of time, not a concept of space. And the most attractive point for me is the concept of ‘process’ – kids buy transformers toys not only because of the eye-catch character setting but the process of transforming, the process of playing with the toys. “The inspiration come from plastic toy kits such as Transformers toys or Gundam toys, I started to notice the similarities between the process of making those toys and making a garment, from 2D to 3D, from pattern to a human-shape covered outfit.