COSMIC BUBBLE PARIS 2015

Cosmic Bubble is an installation produced for CLON8‘s latest A/W 2015 collection launched at the Paris Fashion Week in March 2015. As a response to the collection’s inspiration coming from the desire for space exploration, the piece addresses the utopian scenario of space colonisation and the idea of a ‘wearable micro-climate’, alluding to the evolution of a space suit to a plasmatic micro-atmospheric bubble. It is imagined to be an adaptive layer that is detached from the body but gravitates around the human silhouette and changes shape in a similar manner a meta-blobby soap film would do, maintaining an enclosed volume of air.

The design is influenced by early science-fiction or space artists such as Don Davis or Syd Mead, exploring a process of form-finding around the human body as a synthesis of the symmetrical, the centrifugal and the gravitational. The prototype is conceived in line with the constraints of budget and transportability, being designed as a flat pack component assembly system, with a minimum weight and dimensions needed to achieve the 2.1m tall transparent bubble. The transparency is a key element of the installation which has dictated the need for designing a  fastener free bespoke connection system between the pieces of the assembly, maintaining a pristine clear volatile appearance of the piece.

“The desire for space exploration, the enchanting allure of science fiction, and Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ illustrations have inspired ‘2815’ the Autumn/Winter 2015 collection. ‘2815’ is a retro-futuristic response, which explores the tension between tailoring and easy-wear, the future and the past, the alien and the earthly, while evolving a coexistence with a newly created species. This species is from an imaginary world of fantastic flora and fauna, which have enriched our human shapes with the evolution of printed, woven, and knitted bodies.”

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