Invisible Balance
Capsule Digital fashion collection exploring origin of Yin and Yang and its relation to the gender fluidity
Invisible Balance
Digital Fashion capsul collection inspired by Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces: Yin and Yang. Throught exploration of original meaning of Yin and Yang the research leads us to the gender fluidity as a concept from the perspectives of philosophy. Ying and Yang- represent duality, or the idea that two opposite characteristics can actually exist in harmony and complement each other. However, throught the time original meaning if Yin and Yang were altered and now people tend to prescribe Yin energy to females, while Yang energy to male, because of their "polar" meaning .This can be misinterpreted by reading that woman = feminine and man =masculine. It's not an option. All people have yin and yang energies present in varying proportions atdifferent times in our lives. You can probably remember a timewhen you, as a woman, felt strong masculine qualities or when you, as a man, expressed strong feminine qualities or emotions This is right and normal and is part of the balancing act that symbolizes the yin-yang image.
--Research pages descovering Chinese philosophical concept with a supporting inspirational images--
Concept and Inspiration
Research with a supporting images, that creates the general aesthetic, lead to the collection concept creation. The main focus of the collection was concentrated around gender fuidity and gender neutral clothing, with a digital/robotic aesthetic as a current trend in fashion (Digital Fashion, Metaverse, Fashion NFT, etc). Inspiration was taken from the concept of opposites or polar forces (fluid forms of water and organic shapes, contrasting with stiff and sturdy architectural silhouettes).
--Inspiration boards and their translation into the garment concept (including raw sketches)--
Creation Process
After finalizing both looks the process of creation starts. Before creating garments itself, focus was made on fabrication/trim choice and texture exploration. A lot of inspiraration for fabrics came from water and metal texture. Moreover, the contrast of textures were needed to fit into the opposites concept of contrasting Yin and Yang. Most of the plain texture fabrication were altered and rendered directly in Clo3d, while two textured fabrics (digital mesh and water rings textured fabrics) was performed by using Adobe Suite applications: Illustrator (to build the general texture/pattern) and Substance Sampler (to translate flat drawings into 3D material).
--Full fabrication and trim choice with preliminary rendering of textures and "step-by-step" process of custom fabrics creation--
When all fabric samples were prepared, digital garment construction initialized. First of all, due to conceptual focus of the collection, the avatar choice and adjustments were made. Avatars was had to be totally contrasting with each other and represent both Yin and Yang energies (as a concept via descriptive words). Moreover, digital space allows to make models less human like, which was one of the main goal. After choising the directional path of creation, textures of both avatarts were changes via exporting original texture and adjusting it with Adobe Fresco. Next, the garments construction took place.
--"The Yang" avatar and garment creation--
--"The Yin" avatar and garment creation--
Final Render
Both garments were created and placed in the same file for further rendering. The main set up for render was made using Clo3D application, then the file was imported as GLTF to work on more detailed light and shading using Blender Software. Then result PNG files were processed in Adobe Lightroom to enhance the quality and color scheme of render. Now you can see the final result of all rendering stages.
--Final garments placed together on a stage and rendered on a high quality settings--
--Models are available to explore in 3D on SketchFab--
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All original works created by AvalsTseron (Stanislava Norets)
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