Some of you may be familiar with the futuristic spiky sculptures and structures created by Australian architect and paper artist Horst Kiechle, such as his One Room project or his doorway with Protrusions.
These projects came back to my mind when I saw some of the knitted samples at Igea's stand during Pitti Filati. One of the dresses in a white mohair yarn was characterised by a spiky three-dimensional motif. While the yarn was soft enough, it also retained the right degree of rigidity to keep the three-dimensional surface elements in shape.
Interestingly enough the focus in this piece was on surface elaborations and it is undeniable that surface has been the key to many contemporary landmark buildings and to quite a few modern architectural projects (think for example about Mark Goulthorpe's Aegis Hyposurface).
After the passion for crazy digital prints, the “surface focus” may be the next key trend in both fashion and knitwear with elaborate and intricately crafted structures prevailing over prints.
Rather than adding a decorative edge, surface consciousness may be conceived as a way to fabricate new structures around the body that, while prompted and inspired by digital advancements, may be recreated using old traditional methods.
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