Computational Couture

Haute Couture is a French phrase for high fashion. Couture means dressmaking, sewing, or needlework and haute means elegant or high, so the two combined imply excellent artistry with the fashioning of garments. The purchase of a haute couture model garment is at the top level of hand customized fashion design and clothing construction made by a couture design house. A model haute couture garment is made specifically for the wearer's measurements and body stance. The made to measure exclusive clothes are virtually made by hand, carefully interlined, stay taped and fitted to perfection for each client.

But couture is also craft, art, creativity, diversity, details as well as something unique. Clothes can be considered as the very first form of mediators between body, space and events. Condensing in their aesthetics not only the evolution of its relation to the physical functions of the body (movement, protection, temperature regulation) but also the evolution of cultural expression precisely by exceeding the purely indexical performative relations.

Computational couture looks at the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing (typical of haute couture) through the lens of a systemic approach, extending the sartorial techniques with 3D modeling and computation- based approaches developed in Rhinoceros and the visual programming environment Grasshopper.

Aim of the project is to exert, infuse and expand the sartorial sensibilities to body proportions and dress making into an algorithmic approach that loops through design and fabrication by means of laser cutting and 3d pinting for the design and production of a garment. Project exhibited in Construmat 'Pavillion of Innovation' Beyond Building Barcelona.

Tutors: Alessio Erioli (Co-de-It), Anastasia Pistofidou (IaaC, FabLab Barcelona), Lidija Stanojcic (Fashion Designer)