During my textiles elective my class went on a field trip, only this time to Material Connexion. Material Connexion(here on out: MC) is a really cool resource that Parsons provides for its students. Basically a library/archive for materials, MC is the place to go to find out what new and innovative materials are being invented and produced. Many designers pay the multi-thousand dollar membership fee to have access to such information. I cannot even begin to express how lucky we are as students to have access to such an amazing collection of materials! Which are of course the vanguard of materials. While the materials not only apply to fashion there are so many different types of materials for every type of creative medium. For example, translucent concrete!!! Yes. You read correctly, TRANSLUCENT CONCRETE(and wood too)!!!!!!!! These are a few photos I snapped while visiting the archive that I thought were innovative, unique, and could be applied to fashion! The photo above is of salmon leather!
While the little jewels appear to be, well, jewels they are actually small balls of sticky rice! Yes, sticky rice!!! They are applied to one weft yarn and then hardened on to create this beautiful ornamentation! They look like fresh water crystals in my opinion!
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