rt of the object itself.
“Sacco”, a beanbag chair was the first artifact of that kind introduced in 1968 by three Italian designers: Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro, who created the object during the Italian Modernism movement. Being a post war era phenomenon, Italian modernism’s design was highly inspired with new available technology, by introducing new materials such as polystyrene. The amorphous quality of the bean bag chair and its low cost production started to evoke in me ideas for contemporary fashion and accessory design, where by the wearer morphs with his/ her clothes for comfort, multi purpose and practicality, by using furniture technology in a new way. Through this investigation I also found inspiration from the Argentine sculptor Marta Minujin, who created soft sculptures upholstered in brightly striped furniture fabrics, as well as Ernesto Neto’s ‘Humanoid’ sculptures.
My collections are not just clothes; they are a “wearable lounge” parading the streets of London into new and unknown galaxies – “Lounge Lizard” I am!