How to dress yourself digitally | Designers on sustainability | Scarlett Yang | V&A
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Scarlett Yang is an emerging designer who challenges waste in the fashion industry by experimenting with digital technologies to create innovative designs.
Through her hybrid approach she investigates the properties of biomaterials such as algae and seaweed, whilst also experimenting with augmented reality and virtual design to dress people digitally. Here she tells us about her career journey, creative process, and gives advice around working more sustainably.
This film was created in collaboration with the V&A Youth Collective as part of a series featuring creative design practitioners responding to the climate crisis: • Emerging Designers on ...
The V&A Youth Collective are a cohort of young people ages 16 - 24, who help shape V&A events and content for young people. Find out more about the Youth Collective, opportunities and events: www.vam.ac.uk/...
The V&A Young People's Programme is supported by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
I like the idea of being able to see how you look in garments before they're produced
At one time there were stores online that were doing this. I think people might have felt like the software could be spying on them. And with what we know about companies like Facebook now, I cannot say I blame them.
Don’t wear seaweed clothes in the rain 🌧
Computers are not sustainable and create tons of waste.
Beautiful ware.
You presented novel fashion concepts in a coherent and interesting way. Thank you.
Dressed in the digital world while enjoying your non fungible digital art gallery opening, cool.
I imagine that every retired costume designer is stunned by the processes and beauty of these works of art that we have missed creating. Perhaps every generation of designers may feel this way. I loved this video. I would have discussed it with my students.
New age trash. Return to tradition, wool, cotton, leather etc. Should be embraced, no more plastic
Scarlett says they work with biomaterials, not plastic. It’s an innovative way to use items from nature sustainably.
Leather and cotton aren't all that green either. Cows are big emitters and cotton is a very water heavy crop. (I have nothing bad to say about wool however, that stuffs good and sheep are generally kept on land that can't be used for much else anyway)
Unfortunately at this stage it's a little more complex than just switching fabrics (though that is also good, and researching new ones like seaweed based ones is a pretty cool avenue). We need to seriously change attitudes around clothing in general. Particularly fast fashion and that the fashion industry has 52 seasons a yeah (not an exaggeration).
Honestly I think that digital fashion is a really clever way to make the strange Avant Garde fashion pieces accessible to people who can't afford to be buying wildly expensive one off items (saafiya nygard has a fun video doing it herself if you want to see what it's like for an end consumer). But as a green thing, less impressed.
Sooooo let me get this straight: fashion that can be made from recyclable plastic is trash but wool, cotton and leather that are not only heavy carbon emitters and still sit in labour industries that are know to abuse their workers, are fine?