All Nokia Young Designer Awards 2010 Finalists

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Runner up In the NYFDA 2010 Fashion Awards WHOOOOOOOO!

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Butterfly Effect

Nokia Young Fashion Designer Awards 2010 Finalist

• I'm one of 21 finalists selected in this year’s N.Y.F.D.A. 2010 national competition based on Nokia’s new Ovi.com networking site. The competition is still ongoing, till March 24^th 2010

My garment is based on connectivity: I used fiber optics and L.E.D. lights for detail accents, and creatively used the lights as the boning support.

• The garment is powered by a 9Volt battery pack.

• The under structure has been intricately soldered, connecting all lights and wires in a fashion to support the garments structure.

• Everything is hidden within the garments structure, when the lights are switched on it reveals the element of surprise.

Titled: Butterfly Effect

Inspired by; combining resources of various matters with a strong influence of technology, and a reflection on the Ovi.com website and their new advertising campaign. The garment is parallel with an avant-garde approach with the use of unconventional sources, then tailoring them to form new concepts, a new ease of accesses through a common source of the internet and garment construction. The concept basis is; even the slightest changes and influences in common products, or garments, can manifest over time making incredible impacts on future developments.

All the materials used in Butterfly Effect were carefully intertwined with every focus on the brief and elements used within the access of global communication.

· Fiber optics are used globally to transmit high speed signals and deliver clear connections enabling networking to take place. Accessed by either internet or telephone communications and their providers.

· Light emitting diodes (L.E.D.) are revolutionary, with less energy consumption than a modern bulb it reduces global warming, and a common 12V L.E.D. can have a life span of 50,000 hours with constant use. They are packed with a brilliant light bust and can be smaller than a grain of rice. Not only mobile phones use this technology, L.E.D.’s are used in the automotive industry, most home appliances and electronics, from airplanes,

L.E.D. light strip’s are beneath a layer of fabric channels running vertically from under the bust down, the bodice and over the cage representing the transmission of global connection, and current products used in Nokia’s advertising champagne and all mobile phone screen and button displays. toys, watches and now garments.

· Embroidery and stenciling of circuitry on the bust in copper embroidery thread as conductive materials.

· The cage skirt is also in copper organza connecting the message of conductivity/ connectivity, the design shape is dome shaped with horizontal and vertical intersecting lines representing the global axis, reflecting on global networking.

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1. Design Board: Fabric swatches, fiber optic strands, L.E.D. light source, and sketched image of garment.