Press Release
Nostalgia Moon Wearable Art by Chelsea Shin Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
Chelsea Shin honored for fashion, apparel and garment design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Nostalgia Moon Wearable Art by Chelsea Shin has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Nostalgia Moon Wearable Art
Nostalgia Moon is a fashion collection inspired by the shape and phases of the moon in the night sky. The collection recalls nights of prayer and memories of a grandmother. Circles are added to basic bodice patterns, and flexible boning is placed along the edges of each garment. The boning holds the soft curves of the round moon and gives every piece a three-dimensional form. The looks are draped on a size 4 female dress form and a size 36 male dress form. The collection was developed between August 2020 and May 2021.
About Chelsea Shin
Chelsea Shin is a fashion designer born in South Korea in 1998, and raised in many countries around the world. She is an alumni of Parsons School of Design located in New York City, who majored in fashion design. The freedom of clothing in America has inspired her. She focuses on developing new silhouettes through pattern making and draping. She aims to find a new beauty in fashion and brings attention to the art of craftmanship. The collections cover men’s and women’s wear and accessories.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chelsea Shin 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to fashion designers, apparel designers, garment designers and textile designers from all countries. Typical entries include runway collections, dresses, suits, skirts, outerwear and jackets. The awarded fashion designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fashion
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/136813
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/136813
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!136813
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/328015
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.chelseashin.com
Media Contact
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Nostalgia Moon Wearable Art
- Function
- Wearable Art
- Category
- Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Medium Blue, Navy, Black and Midnight Blue
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chelsea Shin
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #136813
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Jay Lim, Ylang Ylang (The Starry Night), 2021; Photographer Jay Lim, Man in The New Moon, 2021; Photographer Jay Lim, Warm D (Velvet Half Moon), 2021; Photographer Jay Lim, Moonstruck, 2021; Photographer Jay Lim, The F(ul)lower Moon, 2021
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In 2021, Chelsea Shin started to design the collection “Nostalgia Moon” by recalling herself praying for the peace and well-being of her grandmother on the moon in the night sky. The most essential element of her design was adding circles to the basic bodice patterns and using flexible boning to the edges of each garment to emphasize the softness of the round moon that she captured every night. Therefore, the garments themselves were designed in three dimensions as if they were a round moon.
- Inspiration
- The collection “Nostalgia Moon”, designed by Chelsea Shin, was made to keep a promise with her grandmother, but that promise could not be kept. After her grandmother left, she used to pray for her grandmother, and recalled good memories while looking up the moon in the night sky. The more nights she prayed, the phase of the moon felt like a change in her feelings, and the moon floated alone in the night sky felt like herself. The round shape of the moon, its phase, its delicacy, and its transparency inspired her as a designer.
- Challenge
- At the beginning of the design, she printed a large circle and covered the entire body, starting with her head, and thought about how to use this massive big circle more interestingly and diversely. From one huge circle to partially incorporating a circle into the basic bodice, she experienced numerous trials and errors.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2020 in South Korea and finished in May 2021 in New York.
- Specifications
- All the looks are draped on a size 4 female dress form and a size 36 male dress form.
- Keywords
- fashion, circle fashion, creative, creative fashion, boning, construction, nostalgia, moon
