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HARPER’S BAZAAR | MANIPURA BODICE AND HANNYA MASK

The Great Void Spread

Status: Complete
Client: Harper’s Bazaar Art
Bodice and Mask: VERS
Styling: Whitney Whitaker
Photography and Direction: Fernando Rodriguez
Makeup: Laurel Charleston
Model: Cici Tamez
Hair: Niko Weddle
Retouching: Nicolas Beltramino

Hannya Mask by VERS | Cape Dress by Alexander McQueen

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Manipura Bodice by VERS | Dress and Cape by Gucci

Research and Development

This project began with investigating the serial sections that MRI and CT scans produce as an agent to design form. Using the human cranium as the subject, material information is acquired through MRI and CT scanning and from which, geometry is derived in section. Such provides the implication to reconstruct the derived geometries three-dimensionally allowing for a dissolution of the body’s anatomical boundaries and a reconsideration of its form.

Guided by an interest in how fashion can reject Asian cultural appropriation, these research interests led to the design and fabrication of a mask and bodice, which were subsequently photographed in the November 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Art. The bodice, in particular, is titled the “Manipura Bodice” and is an externalization of the interior of the physical and metaphysical components of the torso- in this case bone and the manipura chakra. As such, the bodice acts as dudou like an exoskeletal armor meant to symbolize the healing of personal power.

Formation of thesis interests

Drawing detail of custom armor pattern

Saggital scans of the human cranium highlighting the lower mandible

Cinematic volumetric render of human cranium showing only vessels and bone

3D print of composed bone form

Multi-material reconstruction of 3D printed form using CT Scans

Multi-material render of CT scan derived form

3D print of CT scan derived form