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Gordafarid Clothing by Mina Aliyari Wins the A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
Mina Aliyari acknowledged for fashion, apparel and garment design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design category for Gordafarid Clothing by Mina Aliyari, designed for Kahkeshan Shahab Danesh. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
Regarding Gordafarid Clothing
Gordafarid is a garment created from reused Persian carpets. Damaged and unusable handwoven carpets form the torso and keep their original structure. The pants are made of linen with the draping technique, inspired by the clothing of Iranian tribes. A headband joins Iranian geometry with the origami technique. A shawl made of metal spring wires and fabric can be given different forms on the body. Variable straps allow changes in size and function. The carpet part can also be hung on a wall or placed on a floor.
About Mina Aliyari
Mina, 27, is a talented fashion designer specializing in origami techniques and draping. With expertise in sewing and tailoring, she brings unique craftsmanship to her designs. Her ultimate goal in fashion is redesigning and reimagining styles with a fresh perspective. Shahin, 28, is an interior and furniture designer with a keen artistic vision. As an art consultant, he provides creative ideas and innovative solutions, shaping spaces with aesthetic and functional excellence
Award Record
This recognition makes Mina Aliyari 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/167683
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/167683
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!167683
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/354298
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.instagram.com/dyari.mind?igsh=cTFrbGd2d3pyODBw&u
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Gordafarid Clothing
- Function
- Clothing
- Category
- Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Light Gray, Silver, Rosy Brown, Dark Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Kahkeshan Shahab Danesh
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mina Aliyari
- Country
- Iran
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #167683
Credits
- Team
- Shahin Nayyer
- Image Credits
- Images #1 to #5 : Photographer Mahdie Jalali ,Gordafarid ,2024
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This dress is a bridge between history and modernity Reusing damaged and unusable handicrafts (Iranian carpets) and introducing them into the fashion industry without changing the original structure of the work, as well as the headband, which is a combination of Iranian geometry and modern origami technique The items have multiple uses, A springy and soft shawl that we can give different forms to on the body . A carpet that can be worn or hung on the wall or placed on the floor as a work of art
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for this design is the expression of courage, freedom and beauty of women against anti-women thinking, who stand amidst the limitations of which the Maripach spring shawl is a symbol of these thoughts, and despite their wounds, which are shown on the torso of the dress with the damaged carpet, they inspire beauty and freedom. Because of the social, cultural and artistic meaning of this work, we named it Gard Afridi, a symbol of a brave and free woman in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.
- Research
- Research and Investigations: Historical facts about the clothing, arts and crafts of Iranian peoples throughout history have been made according to the different empires, and the commonalities and consequences of each part of their clothing have been considered. For this project, historical books such as the Shahnameh have been referred to in order to better understand the authenticity of Iran and the influential Iranian women, their role and power.
- Challenge
- Our main challenge in this project is how to combine the main concept, i.e. free woman, with the identity of Iranian culture and art, and also the correct interaction of these two concepts with fashion with a modern approach, considering sustainable fashion. Paying attention to the fact that not everything damaged is worthless and can be given meaning and life again by redesigning. And another problem solved by the project is how to transform handicrafts into clothing while maintaining the original structure of the material and its harmony with the body's form and anatomy, which has turned it into a comfortable and stylish garment.
- Realization and Technology
- This garment uses environmentally friendly materials such as linen in the pants and carpet in the torso The pants are made using the draping technique, modeled after the clothing of Iranian tribes. The garment and accessories use variable straps to allow for changing size and function. A combination of metal spring wires and fabric is used to create a flexible and formable scarf.
- Operation and Interaction
- Transmitting a sense of authenticity and beauty using an old Persian carpet, hand-woven trousers inspired by the Persian tribal customs, a red headband worn by Achaemenid warriors after winning a war, and a spring shawl that expresses limiting thinking like a cocoon wrapped around a woman, but a woman with her courage inspires freedom and beauty.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2024 in Semnan and Finished in December in 2024 in semnan .
- Specifications
- Blouse : width 250mm x 500mm Pants: width 700mm x 1100mm One look size 38
- Keywords
- Sustainable fashion, fashion design, clothing, cultural design, origami technique, persian carpet, redesign, draping
