Graduation collection of three looks, featuring digital printing and laser cut original designs.
The collection is inspired by water and the creation of crystals: the movement of water, the shapes of crystals and how both play with light and refraction.
Ame is a project by Alice Yumi Sinzato and Helena Kussik.
This was selected as one of the entries for the Ponto Zero project, promoted by the Brazilian Textile Industry Association for new designers.
This collection of ten looks is called Ensou and is inspired by Japanese calligraphy arts. It features sublimatic handmade painting designs of fabric, machine embroidery and various textile manipulation techniques.
The fashion show took place in Sao Paulo during a fashion week event for new designers called Casa de Criadores.
This project had the support of textile companies Renauxview and Hoepcke Bordados, and it also showed custom acrylic accessories by Ianah Ramos.
Ame is a project by Alice Yumi Sinzato and Helena Kussik.
The name evokes two meanings: the imperative word for “love” in portuguese, and “rain” in Japanese.
Artists’ statement:
(English)
At ame we make clothes. We wish we could say just that, and it could be that simple, to just do clothing. Not fashion, not art, not craftsmanship. We want clothing with all it represents and with all it can signify, as this empty space that can be filled only by someone, with someone. Within the triviality of a piece of clothing we find the world. That’s what we wish for fashion, this symbolic potential, that what we create and what we wear goes beyond ourselves. As a pair we decided to unite under this word, that is double in itself. Ame is rain in japanese, purifying and renovating; and it’s imperative for love in portuguese. Once we find each other, we know it’s just a matter of starting.
(Portuguese)
Na Ame fazemos roupa. Gostaríamos de dizer isso, e que isso fosse simples, que pudéssemos fazer roupa. E não apenas moda, arte ou artesanato. Queremos roupa com tudo o que ela representa e com tudo o que ela pode significar, como esse espaço vazio que só é preenchido por alguém, com alguém. Na trivialidade de uma peça de roupa encontramos o mundo. É isso que desejamos da moda, esse potencial simbólico, de que o que criamos e também o que usamos esteja além de nós mesmos.
Como dupla decidimos nos unir nessa palavra que é também um par. Ame é chuva em japonês, que purifica e renova; e é ordem de amor em português. Quando nos encontramos sabemos que é só começar.
Collection by UDESC alumnae Alice Sinzato, Camila Fraga and Helena Kussik, in partnership with rotary printing press company Lancaster.
Inspired by the Japanese art of Butoh performance and the writings of Christine Greiner on this subject.
It features original rotary print designs, and we also looked at the company’s archive and mixed rotary printing press cylinders from different archival designs to create new prints.
This is part of a project called SCMC (Santa Catarina Moda Contemporanea), that connects fashion educational institutions with the fashion and textile industry.
Experiments in textile printing, moulage and textile manipulation.
Original print designs and textile manipulations.
Illustration and graphic design comissions.
Design process documentation
