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HAMANSUTRA “ARTIFICIAL SKIN COLLECTION 2060″
Haman Alimardani is ahead of his time. While we take our first tentative steps into 2010, the Iranian/German designer is addressing fashion for the far-off future in his current collection, “Hamansutra’s Artificial Skin Collection 2060.”
In this collection, hamansutra presents a scenario for the future in which technology determines our existence, in which both people and the fashion they wear are required to be functional. hamansutra’s creations are located somewhere between man and machine. Chilly futuristic ladies in skin-tight overalls appear to guard law and order in some science fiction world, while the fabled creature of risk seems to evince some last remnants of human emotions.
Themes of reproduction and rebirth are as much a part of the ideas as the relation between man and machine. In hamansutra’s world there is a very fine line between machines that complement people and machines that control them.
Haman Alimardani was born in Teheran in 1977 and grew up in New York and Germany. After studying graphic design, he primarily worked as a costume designer in the advertising industry – one of his creations is the futuristic woman’s costume in the German TV commercial for consumer electronic giant Saturn, with the slogan “Geiz ist Geil” (Thrifty Is Nifty). Alimardani later devoted himself increasingly to fashion and today lives and works in New York.
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