Bronze Accessory · 2026
Fabricca Headbone Headwear
- Bronze A' Design Award 2026 in Accessory
- CLIENT: Fabricca
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 8,737
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About Fabricca Headbone Headwear
Headbone is a wired textile headwear design that redefines traditional head coverings through an integrated internal form control system. The design enables stable shape retention without pins, knots, or complex wrapping, allowing the wearer to intuitively sculpt and adjust the form. Its two sided construction provides dual styling options within a single object. Combining functional engineering with sculptural aesthetics, Headbone offers a modular, accessible, and contemporary approach to headwear design.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Fabricca Headbone Headwear is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Fabricca Headbone Headwear is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Fabricca Headbone Headwear splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Headbone is an innovative wired textile headwear design that integrates an internal form-control structure to enable shape retention without pins, knots, or complex wrapping. The two-sided construction offers dual styling options in a single product, allowing users to intuitively sculpt, restyle, and secure the form in seconds, transforming traditional headwear into a functional, modular, and sculptural fashion object.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Headbone is a soft textile headwear product with a total length of 540 mm and a height of 290 mm. The flexible construction allows adaptive width and depth depending on styling and head size. An integrated internal shaping wire enables controlled form retention while maintaining lightweight comfort.
- Tags
- wired headwear, modular fashion design, sculptural textile, inclusive fashion, sustainable headwear, reversible design, functional fashion, wearable design, contemporary headwear, form-retaining textile
- Production Technology
- Headbone is produced using breathable textile materials sourced from surplus fabrics of large-scale textile manufacturers, reducing material waste and supporting sustainable production. An internal non-breakable shaping wire is integrated into the structure and has undergone pressure and durability testing to ensure long-term form retention, flexibility, and user safety without compromising comfort
- Design Challenge
- The primary challenge was reinterpreting culturally rooted headwear into a contemporary, functional design without losing its symbolic value. Internally, the project addressed social inclusivity and dignity in relation to hair loss. Externally, challenges included developing a safe, durable shaping mechanism within textile constraints, sourcing sustainable materials, and ensuring compliance with production and safety standards while maintaining aesthetic integrity.
- Research
- Type of Research: Applied design research.
Objectives: To create intuitive, inclusive headwear combining form control and elegance.
Methodology: Material testing, prototyping, and user-centric iteration.
Data & Tools: Textile sampling, pressure tests, wear trials.
Participants: Female users, including individuals with hair loss.
Results: Stable, easy styling without fasteners.
Insights & Impact: Improves accessibility, dignity, and sustainable fashion practices. - Inspiration
- Headbone was inspired by the sculptural elegance and cultural strength of African women colorful headwear traditions, combined with a functional intent to support women experiencing hair loss due to health conditions. The design emerged from research into form retaining textiles and inclusive fashion, aiming to offer a chic, dignified, and empowering alternative that unites aesthetics, comfort, and accessibility.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2020 in Istanbul and was completed in July 2020. Headbone was first launched to the public through the brands official website in August 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Headbone operates through an intuitive interaction between the user and its integrated shaping wire. The wearer positions the textile over the head and gently bends the internal structure to sculpt see, secure, and adjust the desired form. The design maintains its shape without pins or knots, enabling rapid transformation, stable wear, and repeatable styling with minimal physical effort.
- Patents
- Patented. Design Patent No. 2021001904. Owned by Dilara Karayazi, 2021. Turkey.
