Cami James (RMIT 4th Year 2009 final collection, Oyster magazine)
This specific body piece is minimal yet forceful in impact. The detail confined to the molded torso grabs your attention through its light reflecting properties, highlighting its polished finish. It creates a new form for the body, accentuating its original form by extending out to a new degree.
It underlines the concept of the 'hard body', much like Issey Miyake's molded plastic bustier, 1980, as it imitates the body yet displays a hard powerful shell on the wearer. It explains the relationship between the body's form and the garment directly in contact with it. Reversing the idea that clothing clads or conceals the body, this piece replicates the body, exposing it like a second skin compiled of plastic. This bustier created by Cami is dramatic with its reflective surface and sinuous curves can also be appreciated as a sculpture with its own form and function.
I am drawn to this concept, intrigued by its potential response to stretch fabrication, and wish to possible it explore it in the remaining weeks of the project. The consideration of depth and dimension is all part of construction preparation and process in context to both corsetry and stretch fabrics, therefore I aim to illustrate the parallels between the two.
(above images from http://www.nodiscount.com.au/blog/page/4/ viewed 17/4/10)
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