Gen Art hosted a show during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week featuring a new team called WesFeld, two up and coming designers featured on Project Runway Season Five: Daniel Feld and Wesley Nault. The two teamed up shortly after filming wrapped on season five, and entered a Gen Art competition announced in October. After receiving a majority of the votes, they won with the collection presented here and won $10,000 to create and present their collection at the next Fashion Week.
Think you can't make fashion with plastics? Think again. From the press release:
WesFeld's winning designs are whimsical and romantic creations inspired by elements of water and nature. The pale pink evening dress features poly-organza, poly-taffeta and plastic boning to create a shape that resembles a conch sea shell with a pearl inside. The designer’s second look is a more structured and textured dove gray gown made of poly-organza, plastic woven interfacing and plastic boning, with poly-satin piping detail. This gown was inspired by a fossilized exoskeleton of an ancient sea creature and a seahorse's paneled body.
Watch the slideshow here:
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