SHORE - THE DIGITAL ERA ENCAPSULATES A SERIES OF ORIGINAL PRINTS INFLUENCED BY THE SHORES OF SYDNEY, WITH A COMBINATION OF TACTILES, KNIT INSETS AND “ERODING” PATCHES ON THE GARMENTS ALLOWING FOR 3D DEPTHS INSPIRED BY ERODING ROCKS ALONG THE COASTLINE. WITH AN ADDITION OF REFLECTIVE PANELING, THE GARMENT
CAN VISUALLY FOCUS ON THE FLOW OF PRINT DURING THE DAY AND THE SHAPES FITTED SILHOUETTE AT NIGHT.
THE METAVERSE REFERS TO ‘A VIRTUAL-REALITY SPACE IN WHICH USERS CAN INTERACT WITH A COMPUTER-GENERATED ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER USERS’, INFLUENCING THE PERSPECTIVE AT WHICH NATURAL REALITY CAN BE PERCEIVED (OXFORDLANGUAGES, 2022). THE CONCEPT OF AN ALTERNATE REALITY DEVELOPS THROUGH THE PRINTS. SHORE COMBINES BOTH TACTILE AND PRINTED PATTERNS, DERIVED FROM THE SERIES OF PHOTOS. THESE PHOTOS WERE REINTRODUCED AS A BODY OF THERMAL IMAGES, CLASHING IN A WAY THAT REINVENTS THE NATURAL FINDINGS IN THE ORIGINAL PHOTOS. BY REINVENTING NATURE THE IDEA OF A ‘METASHORE’ ARISES.
IN A CONSTANTLY CHANGING WORLD, CORSO COMO REPRESENTS ALL THINGS ‘THAT REFLECT NEW PHILOSOPHY’, ONLY SELLING THE BEST GARMENTS FROM RENOWNED FASHION HOUSES, PROMOTING SLOW FASHION. THE IDEA OF CREATING DIGITAL INTERPRETATIONS OF NATURE IS BECOMING THE FOREFRONT IN FASHION AND WITH THIS, THE SHORE COLLECTION DEDICATES ITSELF TO IDEALLY BEING INCLUSIVE WITHIN CORSO COMO AND ITS ‘NEXUS OF A GLOBAL NETWORK OF CULTURES AND EXCHANGES THROUGH FASHION’. (CORSO COMO, 1991).
BY USING ALL 3 PRIMARIES, A SET OF SECONDARIES AND A SINGLE NEUTRAL, THE COLOURS GRASP A COMPLEMENTATION BETWEEN NEUTRALS AND ARTIFICIAL COLOUR, PRODUCING MULTIPLE DISCORDS WITHIN THE COLLECTION. IN DOING SO, THE IDEA OF A ‘META-SHORE’ COMES TO LIFE.
