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CORSET /PROSTHESISCORSETS /

PROSTHESISCORSETS/ BRACES

RESEARCH CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT DESIGN PACKAGING CORPORATE IDENTITY COMMUNICATION

(ART) HISTORY

PATTERN MAKINGCRAFTMANSHIPTAILORINGSEWING TECHNIQUESMEASURINGFORM AND VOLUME

MEDICAL/ORTHOPEDICS ART OBJECT

SCULPTUREACCESSORIESAVANT GARDE

BRACESSTUTS ARTIFICIAL LIMBSORTHOTICS- prints- cover-ups- exchangable - personalised

“Textile is a very important vector of emotions and memories.” Lidewij Edelkoort

MATERIAL RESEARCH- bandages- haberdashery

LOST/OLD TECHNIQUES- weaving (Ethel Stein)- embroidery- lace- smocking- ...

Inspired by- the human body - traces (of transiency)- architecture - smart geometry - tectonic articulation - ...

Studies have shown that it was linked to significant health risks and detrimen-tal to the woman’s overall well-being, causing breath-ing difficulties, cutting off ox-ygen to the brain and result-ing in that delicate damsel fainting, familiar to us now from Hollywood movies.

“THE WAY PEOPLE DRESS, WHAT THEY WEAR, IS AN IMPORTANT PILLAR OF COMMUNICATION IN OUR SOCIETY” GERRIT-JAN VOS

FASHION ILLUSTRATIONSfashion poses

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CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Suffer for beautyWhy were women willing to take such measures to achieve the beauty ideals during their time — and what are we willing to do in ours.

NICKY MYNY

AN AESTHETIC ADDITION TO THE ORTHOPEDIC FUNCTION TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FEELING

OF WELL-BEING.

A CONTEMPORARY TRANSLATION OF THE SUFFER FOR BEAUTY.

Kahlo decorated one of her many plaster corsets in 1951.

That was the beginning of her career as an art-ist, because she spent about a year in bed, re-covering with all these plaster casts, corsets, and artifacts that were putting her body back to-gether.

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