Vinn Patararin combines the craftsmanship, experience, and interests of multi-disciplinary designers Vinn Chokkhatiwat and Patararin Pongprast. Training separately at prestigious architecture and design schools in Thailand and France followed by working with different Parisian haute couturiers, Chokkhatiwat and Pongprast also incorporate cross-disciplinary theories from sociology, history, art, and culture in their design philosophy.

Vinn Patararin's garments don some seemingly common traits of architecture-meets-fashion pieces — like emphasis on material choice, utilitarian details, pared-down colors, etc. — but the designers add their trademark with their lattice-patterned textile.

Vinn Patararin wanted to create an architecturally structured textile pattern that can adapt to the functional needs and expression of the user. Whether the textile is worn on a human body, used as furniture accents, in art installations, or even applied as a building façade, the designers wanted to challenge the capability of materials in cross-disciplinary experimentation.

Designed to interact with its environment, the textile's mesh pattern weaves in architectural elements of space, light, shadow, volume, and movement while its translucency can also reflect background colors.

With an emerging presence in magazines, blogs, art exhibitions, and major fashion shows throughout Asia and Europe, prospects look very promising for Vinn Patararin in the fashion world. But who knows, maybe textile façades will be a future trend in architecture...

Learn more about the designers and their work here.

You can also check out the video below to see the textile in action. (Includes fashion models "fighting" each other.)