I first found
information on Daniel Vosovic while looking at the First 2 Print website. This
is a website that prints in mass quantities designs onto fabric. The
description on First2Print.com describes simply that his collection “exemplifies the possibilities
of using artistic photographic imagery created as a textile prints”. The print
the site was speaking about was for the Fall/Winter collection of 2010. This
was his first full women’s’ collection. He was inspired for this collection
while walking through a NYC park on night. He observed the effects of time and
nature on the elements of the statues and sculptures. He was exploring the idea
of creative destruction. “Vosovic created completely original prints
and embroideries derived from studying the aging process of oxidized copper,
broken marble, and other materials in various stages of transformation.” The dresses
appear to be direct prints of the photographs. He accentuated the fashion
clothing by his presentation of them all. He placed the models on plain white
pedestals while playing nature films in the background. Source 3
In his
Spring 2011 collection he also started experimenting with digital printing
again, to create what looked like an abstract print was actually a close-up
photo of wolf fur, deer fur, burnt ash, and wood. He focused a lot on
natural textures and made them “fashionable”. Source 4
I even
surprised myself how I found an “artist” that was doing something so similar to
what I did for this last project. He was inspired by the textures he saw in
nature and created fabric out of these macro images. I did come up with my idea
on my own prior to even knowing that fashion designers were doing this also. I
took photos of highly textural objects within nature and rather then printing
them in photograph form onto fabric, I made them digitally traced images. The
end result of his work and what I would like to do with my work is the same,
fashion. His is high class NYC fashion and the output I would like is Athletic
clothing, but it is still textiles.
I am
only going to analyze the fabric itself because I know nothing about high-class
fashion styles. The fabrics he created were very interesting. Although, while
looking at them I can tell that they are a photo or relate closely to a photo,
I could not recognize and pinpoint exactly what the photo was of. Using the
texture of oxidized and weathered statues is very out of the box and
conceptual. Also, the use of wolf fur in his 2011 collection is even more
interesting because it correlated with humans. We wear closes for warmth and
wolves have fur as their “clothing”.
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