The Belgian dressmaker and multidisciplinary artist is revolutionizing the conventions of style by way of his colorful, quaint, offbeat, and ultra-pop universe, which makes upcycling his signature playground.
“My work is about blurring the strains between style and efficiency artwork. I don’t need to be pigeonholed,” defined Tom Van Der Borght at the Hyères Pageant in 2020, profitable the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Prize.
And on the sight of his creations, we aren't stunned. His radical work is a cloth and conceptual exploration of unexplored territories. The 44-year-old Belgian nonconformist designer, who has a hereditary neuropathic muscle dysfunction, created his eponymous model in 2013, after a profession in social work. He’s been turning heads ever since.
Artwork, couture, installation, and efficiency intertwine for a style seen as an “embodied and interactive apply,” between the wearer’s physique and the world round it. At the heart, he injects an eco-responsible consciousness: upcycling at its most extreme, luxurious manufactured from waste. An aesthetic and artistic course of that he engages beyond borders, fashion, and gender.
A lover of materials and detail
This king of recycling is consistently on the lookout for various, non-standard magnificence. He loves errors and flaws that displace the search, defying the classical strategy.
His collection Seven Ways to be TVDB, an excessive self-portrait of his life and experience, is a glimpse of this, designed with unlikely supplies (mountaineering ropes, fish skins, cable ties…).
He additionally likes to combine “merino wool, clear acrylic, and lurex” to acquire a roughness of digital knitting. “Excessive tech DIY” in a “low tech performance,” as he formulates it, the place innovation coexists with traditional craft.
He also finds multiple prospects in the constraint. In his influences, he worships Björk, appreciates the designers Craig Green and Iris Van Herpen, and attracts from the ethnic photographs of photographer Charles Fréger.
His exhibits are a personal focus of all these elements, revealing themselves as sculptures on bodies in colourful, unstructured, sudden mixtures, filled with humor. And all the time, from head to toe! At this time, his new assortment, Time For Love, also introduced in Hyères, is extra “ready-to-wear.”
An strategy that is as colorful as ever, but the place the garment turns into a dwelling metaphor for the hyperlink between people, notably sublimating his iconic double hat.
Credits : @Tom Van Der Borght – T.VDB
Nathalie Dassa
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