Graduation Projekt
"Carnate"
Carnation is the great challenge [...]: not incarnation, where Spirit infuses the body, but carnation plain and simple.
-Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus

Body representations like dress forms and base patterns are highly functional instruments in the fashion industry, perfected for tailoring to a widespread system of size and shape. As such, their intrinsic effects on the design process can be easily overlooked, and body be reduced to a set of measurements. But body is not only shape. It is soft and malleable, flexible, and poseable. There are no vertical or horizontal lines on it. Body is expressive in the way it moves, feels, and mediates. Could there be ways to translate these aspects of body into dress forms to produce fashion on? How would that affect the resulting garments?
Carnate is an experimental research project that exemplifies how the incorporation of alternative body representation could be used to expand our understanding of body, serve as a base on which to develop innovative tailoring techniques, and add to the arsenal of tools that designers can draw from when conceptualizing their vision.