The decline of forestry has led to the loss of forest health, which is one of the factors that cause natural disasters such as landslides.
While forests provide us with healing and blessings, they can also pose a threat to us if we do not treat them properly.
Based on the theme of “creating an opportunity to rethink the relationship between people and forests through clothing,” the production focused on sunlight filtering through the trees, a sign of the forest’s abundance.
While forests provide us with healing and blessings, they can also pose a threat to us if we do not treat them properly.
Based on the theme of “creating an opportunity to rethink the relationship between people and forests through clothing,” the production focused on sunlight filtering through the trees, a sign of the forest’s abundance.
The textiles, made from wood from managed forests, were brought into a lush, light-filled forest, where the patterns were dyed using the light filtering in through the trees.
The dyeing process used a blue-printing technique, which has the unique characteristic of developing colour when exposed to light, allowing the light of KOMOREBI(the sunlight filtering through the trees) to directly coat the textile.
This clothing creates the experience of being enveloped in the rich light of the forest, providing an opportunity to think about forests.
Material：TENCEL™ Wooden thread [Washi no Nuno Co.]
Photography by YASUNARI KIKUMA / ©︎ FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM
Misaki Suda
