Gabay’s designs emphasize intricate
details, which she believes complete an item;
this can be seen with her minimalist notes,
heavy embroidery, and insertion of wearable
technology or traditional crafts. She aspires to
give her work a personal touch so that every
piece is stitched in her own handwriting.
For “A Fashionable Body”, Gabay used the
tension between the natural versus synthetic
worlds to evoke questions of the evolution
of identity creation and whether a biological
twist is something we can expect in the
future of fashion.
“My aim was to examine the aesthetics
of new biological technologies in fashion
designing - will designers in the future actually
be able to really transform the body of the
client? Will a fashionable thinking of the body
emerge – organs as accessories?” muses Gabay.
Gabay translated the conflict between
synthetic and natural by binding raw materials
such as fur and leather, with highly processed
fabrics, also merging traditional embroidery
techniques with Swarovski stones; the result
is an astonishing display of biological beauty,
inclusive of delicate latticework veins and
arteries and a sparkling anatomically correct
heart, enabling you to literally wear your heart
on your sleeve.
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