Fashion: Camille Cortet

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Camille Cortet's transformation line is wicked cool  http://camillecortet.com/
See for yourself

This part of the project is about transformations that lead to the creation of adornments.
By observing animals’ transformations we understand animals’ behaviours that we can connect with and that we would like to have from them. These animal’s behaviours are inspirations for our own transformations. 
Thus, we start a process of transformation. 
My process to create these animal inspired behaviours is led by 3 stages : copying - merging - and translating. The translation  stage, is about adapting this behaviours to our culture. It is a way to create new gestures and new body languages within clothing and ornaments.
We can resume this process as designing by connecting with the animal.  We translate the animal’s beauty and finally merge with its behaviour,  almost to the point of embodying it.
 This part is divided in 3 topics: the bird and seduction - the fish and shielding - the snake and molting.


● TRANSFORMATIONS ● ❛ Inspiration Book ❜ This book is a discovery of animal transformations in the animals’ culture and ours. It begins with an exploration of transformations in the animal realm. Through three main themes, GROWTH, SEDUCTION AND DISGUISES, we discover visual and sensorial changes, which are the basis of my research.  This analysis allows us to understand the physical, behavioural and social reasons, which are at the origin of such changes. Therefore we like to speak about THE CULTURE OF ANIMALS rather than the animal realm. In the second part of this book, ANIMALS AND CULTURE will be explored in a cultural analysis of human beings and their connection to the animal realm through transformations.  This chapter is divided into three themes, COPYING MERGING ‒ TRANSLATING.   By analysing cultural references and observing how we connect to the animal culture, this section proposes a process of creation applicable to design in our culture.  TRANSFORMATIONS explores the multiple possibilities used to rediscover the animal culture by translating it for our own cultural language in order to develop new means of expression through clothing and adornments.

❙ Slow-Water ❙


 Water flows, escapes, leaks and disappears.We use water everyday, the amount of used water varies with the use and the awareness of each user. Slow water is an exploration into the experience of water use in daily life. 
The sink is made out of concrete. The surface is nearly flat and waxed, the water flows down in the tiny hole in the center.
With a slow flow the water falls down quietly. Drops appear on the waxed surface, they fall slowly and disappear. If the flow is too intense, water overflows and is absorbed by the concrete on the sides. The tracks of water are appearing and marking the sink. Slow water tends to change the user habits by showing the beauty of water drops and slowness.






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