“Translating autonomous ideas into commercial projects…”

Thomas Voorn is a conceptual stylist and designer with a contemporary vision on color, clothing, and communication. He is particularly interesting to highlight for his process and multidisciplinary implementation of concepts. Just looking at his work can catch you off guard, as it did when we first featured him on Trendland (see here) and called him fashion designer. He is a designer in the full sense of the word but uses different mediums/disciplines to illustrate how his concepts live in those worlds. This Collection is called Fashion Herbarium (In botany, a herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens) – Coming Home Series 0.3. You can see throughout these photos he has implemented his floral designs all throughout the home and as worn as apparel.

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Introducing Michail Gkinis, Greek born designer currently living and designing in Tokyo. He interned under Issey Miyake, the influence of Issey’s work can be seen in Gkinis Brand Aptform.

CONCEPT : SPIRIT
Michail Gkinis is making meaningful clothes always progressing the Raison d’Etre into the wearers mind. The message he portrays is ‘Form Follows Function’ by the Bauhaus art movement. His admiration to implement it not only in clothing but as a purpose of life. Having this in mind he is applying the amalgamations of industrial/ nature/ human values/ the space within as the fundamental inspirational engine in order to express his awareness about the modern social environment and in result is using clothing as a medium to communicate with the rest of the humanity.