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Re Created Sustainable Suite by Kestutis Lekeckas Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
Kestutis Lekeckas recognized for fashion, apparel and garment design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Re Created Sustainable Suite by Kestutis Lekeckas, designed for Fashion House Lekeckas, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About Re Created Sustainable Suite
Collection creates a new aesthetic through waste and scrap from the sewing industry. Model design is born from a vivid combination of scraps, colours, proportions and textures. Each model is different and unique. The design reveals a variety of wear options, from a classic snug suit to oversize. Models created from pieces symbolize versatility and multiplicity of a person, inspiring users to rethink their values and re-create their self's. For the presentation, author chose a place that sometimes resembles new constructions and sometimes an apocalypse, which makes to rethink future scenarios.
About Kestutis Lekeckas
Kęstutis Lekeckas is a designer whose works do not scream, but speak through exquisite and delicate details. For a designer, it is very important to create an original construction and make the most of material properties, he is influenced by his educational and scientific work (he is a doctor of science in materials engineering and technology). The designer likes to surprise, aiming for original clothing solutions to be discovered and noticed not immediately, but little by little, giving additional satisfaction and surprise. In his latest works, Kęstutis mostly draws inspiration from Lithuanian heritage and ideas of a sustainable lifestyle.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kestutis Lekeckas is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Award
The A' Fashion Design Award is an international fashion design competition recognizing good fashion designs by best fashion designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to fashion designers, apparel designers, garment designers and textile designers from all countries. Entries typically include runway collections, dresses, suits, skirts, outerwear and jackets. Awarded fashion designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fashion
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/116731
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/116731
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!116731
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/219161
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://lekeckas.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Re Created Sustainable Suite
- Function
- Sustainable Suite
- Category
- Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Black, Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Fashion House Lekeckas
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kestutis Lekeckas
- Country
- Lithuania
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #116731
Credits
- Image Credits
- all images: Photo - Migle Golubickaite / Hair - Kristina Gorodeckiene (Beauty Loft) / Makeup - Austeja Marija Jascaninaite / Models - Less drama agency / 2021 Video: Daiva Tindziuliene
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Collection develops slow fashion ideas, creating a new aesthetic through waste and scrap from the sewing industry. Unique models are delivered with a variety of stylistic combinations, from a classic snug suit to oversize. Models created from pieces symbolize versatility and multiplicity of a person, inspiring to rethink our values and re-create ourselves. The location was chosen like an allusion of an apocalypse, which we can avoid only by changing ourselves fundamentally - a new rebirth.
- Inspiration
- The creation of the collection was most inspired by Earth Overshoot Day which marks the date when humanitys demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in that year. In 2020, it fell on August 22. I hope to reduce earth resource consumption although a little, thanks to my design. Lithuanian national heritage is also inspiring, silhouettes and details close to the national costume, material combinations close to the Lithuanian patchwork.
- Research
- The idea of the collection was developed to influence the evolution of sustainable fashion. Based the large amounts of waste given from fashion industry, the idea of how to create original and unique products for new aesthetics has been proposed. It is important that the new design forces consumers to think, make responsible choices and change their habits. The stylistics and patchwork methodology of Lithuanian national heritage were used for this work.
- Challenge
- Material fragments come in very different textures and colors, sometimes in different qualities, so combining it all into one product means creating a design based on random combinations. The process is long and the design is created live by laying and joining different pieces.
- Realization and Technology
- Only natural and organic materials. Main material is scarps of natural, best quality wool 130s.
- Operation and Interaction
- These original costumes can be worn in a traditional way combined with a shirt, tie and oth. Or out of set in combination with casual wear. The jacket is perfect looks with jeans or golf. In this way, more wear variations appear, the range assortment is expanded, and the idea of sustainable fashion is contributed.
- Project Duration and Location
- The collection presented on January, 2021 in Kaunas, fashion house leKeckas. The presentation was presented in Lithuanian and foreign media
- Specifications
- The suits made for men, sizes from 48 to 56. There is possibilities to wear like classical or oversize style.
- Keywords
- sustainable suite, lekeckas, men fashion, sustainable fashion, unique suit, sustainable jacket, jascke, suite, patchwork jacket
