ORI*fox

RESEARCH THROUGH MAKING

To intersect with the curatorial framework, the Artist Lab Matthew Gardiner presentation at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2016, we selected fashion made from new technologies as to frame the inquiry. The results were two objects: ORI*fox and ORI*vertex.

ORI*fox

With the use of a variety of fabrics as a successful material of choice to use with the Niwashi, it’s a natural conclusion that for the fashion and millinery worlds, our discoveries and processes are of great interest and value. We have been testing its many applications and uses ourselves, and seek to continually look at ways we can create a cohesiveness between the software’s individualised capabilities and that of successfully producing realistically tangible (wearable) outcomes.

Through the printed fabrics ability to sculpt itself across the body, the use of it for adding functionally adaptive embellishments, and decoratively sculptural elements to garments, was an apt starting point for exploration. ORI*fox was created as an ethical and modern choice in the creation of stoles, wraps, boas, collars and cuffs. The use of fur, in its pinnacle height of popularity in fashion, was seen as a way to elevate the wearer, and their accompanying garments, to the epitome of elegance with its ability to make a statement with the contrast of textures, movement, ampleness and shine. ORI*fox has the capabilities to do just this.

Thanks to the plated hinged folds, Niwashi printed fabric as ORI*fox has the ability to be altered to suit the wearers desired look. Fastened together with a choice of clasps, magnets, ribbons or buttons, different styling options are achievable through manipulation and compression of various points along the printed geometric faces. This particular ORI*fox has been printed on Offitex felt, a stiffening synthetic garment felt, which is able to achieve quite dramatic sculptural results if required and provides an effective contrast of textures against the opaque shine of the smooth printed plates.