In previous posts I explored the influence of geometry and figures such as triangles and tetrahedrons in fashion, but today I would like to briefly look at uniform polyhedra.
A uniform polyhedron is an isogonal polyhedron with regular polygons as faces and identical vertices.
Uniform polyhedra are regular or semi-regular but the faces and vertices need not to be convex. Among the convex polyhedrons there are also the Archimedean solids.
These 13 convex uniform polyehedra (including truncated tetrahedron, cuboctahedron, truncated hexahedron, truncated octahedron, rhombicuboctahedron, truncated cuboctahedron, snub hexahedron, icosidodecahedron, truncated dodecahedron, truncated icosahedron, rhombicosidodecahedron, truncated icosidodecahedron and snub dodecahedron) can be constructed by truncating or twisting the vertices of Platonic solids.
I find these figures rather fascinating as they could easily be applied to clothes and accessories and be used to create pieces in contrasting colours that incorporate either the three-dimensional shape of these solids or the flattened out version of these figures, as in the ‘click and fold’ woollen flannel cocktail frock mentioned at the end of yesterday's post.
This design completely changeable in colour and in form is part of the project “Fragment Textiles” by Dutch Designer Berber Soepboer, in collaboration with Fioen van Balgooi.
The project is actually based on two designs, one employing square-shaped pieces of flannel and the other integrating star-shaped bits of the same material. These parts can be mixed in new ways to create a variety of styles and colours without using any stitches or zips.
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Posted by: GabeSemeraro | February 13, 2011 at 02:46 PM