FLOWING: Flowing- Stephanie Adams

As a group we started collaborating on the idea of "Flowing" referring to the smooth transition between one movement to the next...

Images and videos I've found to express this idea:

Vines and the idea of continual connectivity; continual growth and development; chaotic yet smoothly intertwining between leaves and objects.

These Images from Tara Donovan present flowing in the structural concept of the way our class will be designing our "wearable architecture." The structure will be composed of very small units making one skin. These are examples of this being done to show a "flowing" manner.

This architecture by Zaha Hadid, show "flowing" to me. The movement is very smooth and clean. One building is composed of smaller units forming the smooth skin and the other shows flowing by the long smooth strips.

These fashion pieces from Helmut Lang, Yohji Yamamoto, and Azzendine Alaia stood out to me as "Flowing" in different ways: The white dress drapes and moves easily. The green plad clothing is entangled yet the pieces are flowing together smoothly. The black and white dress has the colors and the position of the layers draping into eachother well-"flowing" (an idea to think about positive and negative space); The black and see-through dress also represnts the idea of positive and negative space flowing into each other well. The series of movement from the girl, gives a good idea of dancing moves to show off the flowing movement of the wearable architecture we will make. The last two dresses are great examples of the actual flowing movement of a silky or lightweight material down a catwalk-it begins to shape and take the form of your body as you begin to walk forward, giving it a windblown "flowy" lightweight smooth look to the clothing.