Rie Hosokai calls herself a balloon artist, although most of her floaty sculptures take the form of dresses and gowns. So then it was a surprise to me to open up one of my favorite technology blogs this morning and see her and her partner Takashi Kawada’s work as duo “Daisy Balloon” being featured for a LEGO dress they made for PARCO last year. One thing led to another and I`m back on the Daisy Balloon website checking out the latest collections. They are stunning, to say the least!
細貝里枝。自称「バルーンアーティスト」。しかし、
Artwork : Daisy Balloon
Photographer : Satoshi Minakawa
Hair : Dai Michishita
Make : Kanako Yoshida
I have often said that new silhouettes are extremely difficult to invent in fashion anymore (everything’s been done already!) but not only is designing with balloons quite innovative, but Rie & Takashi took it another step further by incorporating balloons with illustrations and patterns printed on them for some next-level artistry.
Artwork : Daisy Balloon
Photographer : Satoshi Minakawa
Hair&Make-up : Masaki Moritani
Moyou : Maya Shibuya
Model : Ari
Artwork : Daisy Balloon
Photographer : Satoshi Minakawa
Hair&Make-up : Masaki Moritani
Moyou : Maya Shibuya
Model : Ari
They even teamed up with one of my favorite artists of all time, Maki Kahori.
Daisy Balloon 他に勝る者の少ない、
Artwork : Daisy Balloon
Photographer : Satoshi Minakawa
Hair&Make-up : Masaki Moritani
Moyou : Maya Shibuya
Model : Ari
Last year, Daisy Balloon produced a book of photos using her balloon creations. To learn more about DB and see their work, read here and here from this blog, too.
去年、バルーンの作品を用いて、”Daisy Balloon”写真集をプロデュースした。
Cover Artwork :
Artwork : Rie Hosokai / Art Direction : Takashi Kawada
Photography: Hiroshi Manaka / Make-up : Ebara
Hair : Koji Ichikawa / Stylist : Koji Oyamada
Model : Ira Shushiebina / Photo Retouch : Yoshiaki Sakurai
Set Production : Yoshihito Tada
Making dresses out of non-fibrous materials like plastic is not new, but making them out of objects is always fun to see from an artistic perspective.
糸などの繊維が全く無いものからドレスを仕立てるのって、
Artwork : Daisy Balloon
Production : Atsushi Umezawa
Photography: Satoshi Minakawa
Styling : Kumiko Iijima
Hair&Make-up : Noboru Tomizawa
Model : Ninon Webb
It reminds me of the dresses Hissa Igarashi made, for his magazines Virgine and Twelv, like the McQueen one from Gummi Bears and the iPad dress. Check out more here:
それは、Hissa Igarashiの作ったドレスを思い起こさせた。
Assistant editor: Yoshi Peter
4 replies on “FROM BALLOONS TO LEGOS, NEW FASHION WORK FROM DAISY BALLOON ルーンにレゴ、デザイナー兼アーティストのDAISY BALLOONによるファッション新作がどれも目新しく刺激的。”
It looks amazing, like 3D printed dresses!
What is the technology blog you are mentioning in your post?
I read techcrunch, iO9.com and gizmodo ^^
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