Oscar Keene - Fluid - Digitally prototyped slow fashion

Fluid - Explore queer selfhood during the time of COVID-19

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Fluid - Digitally prototyped slow fashion

Designed by Oscar Keene, 'Fluid' won the Fashion Communication Category in the Global Design Graduate Show in collaboration with Gucci 2021.

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'Fluid' explores queer selfhood during the time of COVID-19 addressing the questions; how does the queer body intersect the material and relate to space when traditional boundaries are in flux? What does queer safety look like when queer community is fractured?

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The collection demonstrates the potential for slow fashion to be prototyped digitally and then made to order.

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This technology adapted to fashion can engage the viewer in a different way to live streamed runways and conventional photoshoots, and can connect the artistic, conceptual framework behind a collection to the viewer with significantly reduced waste. 

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This work merges art, fashion and commerce. 3D software can create compelling visual narratives, and design, pattern-making and prototyping can be accurately recreated virtually.

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There is no physical waste involved in these phases of production, and the accuracy of the simulations reduces the waste involved in creating the physical garments.

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'Fluid' emphasises the capacity for digital fashion to align with pre-existing fashion practices, to improve on the chain of production and combat fast fashion, highlight the potential for a multidisciplinary approach to advance fashion. 

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It celebrates non-traditional narratives that can reflect the lived queer experience and the increasingly diverse identities that fall under that expansive category.

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"I'm currently running my own fashion label 'Oscar Keene', recently had my first runway for my new collection 'The Digital Temple of Synthetic Flora', and was a finalist for the Victorian Premier's Design Awards in Australia."

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"I also won the National Graduate of the Year Awards in Australia. I'm also now employed by RMIT, teaching in the Bachelor of Fashion (Design) programme." - Oscar Keene

Credits: Story

 FIRST NAME: OSCAR

LAST NAME: KEENE

UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE: RMIT UNIVERSITY MELBOURNE

COURSE / PROGRAM: FASHION DESIGN BA HONS

GRADUATED: 2020

SPECIALISMS: APPAREL / FASHION TECHNOLOGY / FASHION ILLUSTRATION

WEBSITE: Fluid by Oscar Keene  

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