The Crafts and Arts in Modern Fashion and Textiles

Posted on 27 feb 2008

The RISD Museum of Art represents "The Arts and Crafts in Contemporary Fashion and Textiles" exhibition. The works of modern designers who prefer the quality of life to mass branding are brought together. The designers will experience in a mutual practice of innovation in the field of design and elaboration of new technologies.

More than 20 designers, craftsmen, artists, and architects from the United States, Britain, Europe, Mexico, and Japan will take part in the exhibition. The main trait of the exhibition’s participants is the adherence to fashion and textiles in a spirit of the early Arts and Crafts movement’s response to industry. The majority of these modern designers unite technology with the creativity in frames of rational design.

These artists are characterized as socially conscious, professionally literate, and, the last but not least, creative persons. They are very interested in realizing of their ideas in contemporary manufacture. Today, a “cottage-industry” production is in fashion; you can meet an old-fashioned knitting machine and hi-tech equipment in one room.

As Molo Design Group say, “Soft allows the user to create structures and redefine space in a dynamic and temporal way, allowing for an economy of material usage, flexibility and reusability that is unparalleled.” This group is known as one of trained architects skilled in fine art and material craft. They prefer a hands-on creativity though that encouraging experimentations.

The exhibition pays attention to the methods in which issues of control on the manufacturing process and the variety of materials, which are used unify present and past craftsmen and designers.