MAD's Ma Yansong teams with FENDI for new ergonomic fashion collection

2024-09-20T14:50:00-04:00

Promising what it called a "radical design gesture at the intersection of fashion and architecture," MAD Architects has unveiled their fashion collaboration with Fendi. The collection designed by founder Ma Yansong for the Italian luxury retailer was first seen during the brand’s runway presentation for Men’s Fashion Week in Milan this January.

Image credit: Courtesy of Fendi

A play on the duality of materials and form provides the reference for the new Peekaboo ISeeU bag and FENDI MAD sneakers, which come in dove gray-safety yellow or black-on-black colorways.

Image credit: Courtesy of Fendi

The bags, deconstructed with varnished aluminum wave inserts that break up the smoothed leather surface of their facades, are hewn in Cuoio Romano grain leather. The slip-on shoes, also available in an off-white/silver colorway, are made from mesh with injection-molded soles and similar metallic details. This is the architect’s first foray into the lucrative ready-to-wear market following a prev...

"The best posture is the next posture" – Galen Cranz's body-conscious sociology on Archinect Sessions One-to-One #10

2016-02-08T18:52:00-05:00

In line with this month's "Furniture" theme, I speak with Galen Cranz, an architecture professor at UC Berkeley specializing in body-conscious design. Cranz is trained in the "Alexander Technique" – a method for "correcting" the body's poor habits of movement, that can limit self-awareness in a space.

Before coming to Cal to teach architecture, Cranz received her PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago, influencing her pedagogy of architecture and furniture to primarily be about how humans occupy designs, and how social hierarchies emerge from those conventions.

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MAD's Ma Yansong teams with FENDI for new ergonomic fashion collection

"The best posture is the next posture" – Galen Cranz's body-conscious sociology on Archinect Sessions One-to-One #10