Alina Krutakova: External Pressure

External Pressure explores deformation as a response to physical and social forces. Crush tests, collision studies and trees growing around barriers inform an investigation of distortion, fracture and plasticity in clothing.

Mind map and moodboard exploring external and social pressure — Mind map and moodboard

Tree growing around metal fence bars

Portrait distorted through a circular water surface

Eyal Gever’s silver and lavender collision sculpture — Sculpture: Eyal Gever© Eyal Gever

Eyal Gever’s lavender block compressed against a wall — Sculpture: Eyal Gever© Eyal Gever

Process

Three crumpled paper portrait studies across the top row, with three gray textured fabric swatches below — Texture and print development

Portrait print study with displaced facial features and hands

Portrait print study with distorted face and circular motifs

White shirt development board with sketches and pattern pieces — Contribution: Independently developed the patterns, constructed the toile and sewed the final shirt.

Finished gray sweater shown from the front, side and back — Sweater prototype — side, front and back

Final Outcome

Three-quarter white shirt look with sculpted sleeve volume

Model wearing the finished sculptural blue-gray sweater with white trousers and boots

Finished white shirt with a distorted portrait scarf

Three-quarter white shirt look with a portrait scarf over the head

White sculptural shirt on a model — front view — White shirt — front view

White sculptural shirt on a model — back view — White shirt — back view

HSE Design for Badlon MagazinePhoto — Tanya KlimovichMua — Taya GuskovaDesign and styling — Alina Krutakova