Izzy Du, is a Chinese-Canadian designer based in London. She attended Central Saint Martins and graduated from the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Fashion Department in 2021. This body of work will be the first under the brand IZZY DU, with the designer’s 21’ graduate collection as a prelude.
IZZY DU is launching with a ready-to-wear line: IZZY DU /LIFELINE, and a first official main runway collection titled “PROVENANCE”. The designer imagines an astounding world in which the beings within are morphed from the surrounding landscape and tinted by the hues of the atmosphere. Focusing on external silhouette outlines and the internal structure ol a garment, Izzy Du’s work combines and manipulates various materials to create dimensional contrast between the garment and the negative space they create on the body. This gives to her work singularity and unrepeatable originality.
IZZY DU /LIFELINE is primarily focused on the wearer. This line is centered on quality fabrics, flattering for the body, integral colour schemes, and comfort. Characterised by minimal finishings and trims, pure prints and apex pattern making, every element is considered consciously. Rooted in fundamentals, this collection is about reducing excess and rebounding to the basics of garment-making. Technically constructed garments that everyone, no matter what style, age or gender, can link seamlessly into their wardrobe.
Main fabrics in the collection are cotton, silk, and a water-repellent, bi-stretch polyamide tech fabric for comfort, breathability and versatility.
All puffers are filled with duck down and feather and encased in water-proof fabric made with 100% recycled polyamide.
Accessory face masks were created in collaboration with artist Pierre-Louis Graizon and are made out of leather and felt.
“In a world of over stimulation and over production, I seek to bring back a sense of fresh wonder and possibility, I create to incite emotion, whether that be positive or negative, and I toil to preserve interstellar moments in tangible form.
‘PROVENANCE’ is my villain origin story. Totem beings in a pellucid world of magnificent landscapes and aerial beauty. This collection is about pure forms and fun shapes. It is about a mixture of beauty and ugliness with subtle humour. I love the word subtlety. It is what I had in mind when creating the main collection. At first glance my work is not subtle. However, subtlety lies in the details. Fashion innately takes itself too seriously, with this collection I hope you see the humour in it as I do.”
I thought I would share with you the names we used internally to reference all the looks. I call it as it is:
1. Flex Wheeler
2. Celestial Slit
3. Sexy Pu er Body
4. Yellow Circle
5. Black Hole
6. Black Hole (Revealed)
7. Blue Milk Carton
8. Blue Milk Carton (Revealed)
9. Celestial Wind Blocker
10. White fur
11. Square Fish
12. Woodsy
13. So many squares
14. Red circle
15. 50Shades of Silver Milk Carton
16. Big Lump
17. Rug
18. Cool Man
19. Green girl
20. Very Tall Kind of Ugly
Credit
Director & Photographer: Igor Pjorrt / @pjorrt Cinematographer: Ed Hubert / @edhubert
1st AC: Chago Santiago Medina de Leon / @chagosman Models: Zhuo Chen / @zhuoo_
Lisa Winter / @lisawinter777 Jelle De Beer / @jll.db
Production: Control Tower Production / @controltowersproductions Producer: James Graley / @jameslgraley
Editor: Adam Toddhunter / @adam.todhunter Sound: Adam Rajab / @adamrajab068
Grade: Igor Pjorrt / @pjorrt Dresser: Laetitia Renee
Local Fixer: Zac David @z4c_d
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