Press Release
Alternative Genderless Fashion Collection by Yu Pei Kuo Receives the A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
Yu Pei Kuo 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, May 4, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Alternative Genderless Fashion Collection by Yu Pei Kuo, designed for Alternative, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 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.
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.
About Alternative Genderless Fashion Collection
Alternative is a genderless fashion collection of fourteen items, including tops, bottoms and outerwear. The collection is inspired by ancient unisex garments from Western and Eastern cultures, such as the Greek chiton, the Roman tunic, the Chinese shenyi and the Thai jongkraben. Each item uses flexible connections, materials and folding, so the fit can be adjusted to different bodies. The garments are presented on male and female bodies. The intent is not to hide the body but to blur fixed dress boundaries and support self-identity.
About Yu Pei Kuo
From designer to lecturer, from product to fashion, from artist to curator, Dr. Kuo is a traveler who is willing to play with different fields and cultures in her journey.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yu Pei Kuo 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/121254
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/121254
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!121254
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/301163
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Alternative Genderless Fashion Collection
- Function
- Genderless Fashion Collection
- Category
- Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Gray, Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Alternative
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yu Pei Kuo
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #121254
Credits
- Image Credits
- Creator YuPei Kuo, Alternative, 2021
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The genderless collection project inspires Western and Eastern ancient unisex attires to gain flexible design ideas to melt into modern genderless fashion design—each item of the project design with flexibility as the solution to adjust the fitting with the different body. The collection titled "ALTERNATIVE" signs public the genderless concept, not hiding gender body but free the standard gender fashion blurs the boundary as another choice to enable self-identity.
- Inspiration
- The genderless collection project inspires from the ancient unisex attires during the periods that gender and costume without a strong connection. Moreover, take the view from western to eastern culture, the project collects four ancient unisex attires of Greek Chiton, Roma Tunic, China Shenyi, and Thai Jongkraben. Throughout the analysis and comparison of the prototype, wearable skill, silhouette, features, materials to gain the ideas to melt into modern genderless fashion design.
- Research
- The practical research explores a genderless collection wearable fitting with both gender bodies in one item with a flexible design that inspires from Western and Eastern ancient unisex attires. This study applies analyzing method to identify history, modernization, structure, and wearable skills to develop the practical experiment and melt various flexible designs with ancient costume prototypes to modernizes the collection. The genderless concept, not hiding body but free the standard gendered fashion to enable self-identity.
- Challenge
- Since being a student who studies fashion, the two standard pattern design methods, prototype and drapping, need to define the gender in advance to continue the design process. Although the research study and inspire the prototype from the ancient unisex attires, it is difficult to avoid the old design thinking but abandon the gender limitation. However, throughout a few rounds of the design experiment and modify the design thinking and process to melt the genderless concept and flexible design to fit with different gender one item design.
- Realization and Technology
- Flexible connections, materials, and folding.
- Operation and Interaction
- The genderless collection project gains the idea of flexibility to fit with the different gender bodies. Each item of the project was designed with different flexibility to adjust to fit with different bodies, such as connection, materials, and folding prototype. The genderless project presents the garments on male and female bodies to show the various conditions that discovering the genderless concept not to hide gender body but blur the boundary to free the standard gender fashion.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2019 in Bangkok and finished in August 2020 in Bangkok, and was exhibited in Bangkok in September 2020 and Taipei in December 2020. The collection was also invited to present in the “Taipei Da-Dao-Cheng International Fashion Showcase”. The collection has been selected in “2021 Bangkok Design Week” and will exhibit in Bangkok in May 2021.
- Specifications
- The collection contains 14 items to match different outfits with freedom, including tops, bottoms, and outwears. Each item design in reasonable dimensions under the width 500 mm X Height 200mm.
- Keywords
- genderless fashion, ancient attire, flexible design, adjustment
