peat

March 29, 2021 in Styling, Consulting

peat

Retracing seminal influences on my creative practice from childhood, namely: the ballets of Mats Ek and Angelin Preljocaj, Kiki Smith’s delicate drawings and sculptures, post-World War II Yugoslavian Spomenik monuments and the Mudmen of Papua New Guinea. The collection culminated in a short film shot with dancers from the Royal Ballet, Matthew Ball and David Donnelly, on location in Buckinghamshire. Composer Max Richter provided a score for the film, an excerpt from his 2002 album Memoryhouse.

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Styling Consulting by Sabrina Che
Photographed by Pascal Emmeran
Modelled by Matthew Ball and David Donnelly
Movement Direction by Patricia Zhou
Hair by Ben Grace

27 carpets

September 18, 2020 in Consulting, Styling

27 carpets

A story of Western denim jeans traded for Persian silk rugs served as the starting point for this project, reflecting the bricolage between the old-world and the contemporary in Iranian shepherds. Glass and coral beads form an arrangement mimicking rug patternations, while dandelions screenprints adorn handwoven denim folded-crotch dungarees.

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Styling Consult by Sabrina Che
Photographed by Pascal Emmeran
Modelled by Louis Hubbick
Hair by Ben Grace

porcelain skin

September 14, 2020 in Styling, Consulting

porcelain skin

A reimagination of the Hitchcock blonde as a contemporary male by breaking down the wardrobe elements used to create this image—spiral-stitched bras, matching suit sets and silk scarves. A checkered cardigan jacket and hourglass dress are complete with spiral-stitched embroideries, a printed silk lining and a blown glass scarf.

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Styling Consult by Sabrina Che
Photographed by Pascal Emmeran
Modelled by Louis Hubbick
Hair by Ben Grace

reclining nude

August 21, 2020 in Styling, Consulting

reclining nude

An ode to Naomi Campbell’s love affair with Vladislav Doronin, the house Zaha Hadid designed for them and the furnishings within. A cutout bodysuit is printed in scans from Corinne Day’s ‘Diary,’ a wooden belt replicates Carlo Mollino’s Arabesque Table and a glass and leather necklace is designed in the manner of shibari-knotted rocks.

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Styling Consult: Sabrina Che
Photographed by Pascal Emmeran
Modelled by Téo Dubreuil
Hair by Ben Grace

parachute landing fall

July 22, 2020 in Styling, Consulting

parachute landing fall

An exercise in bridging the pantomimic body language of Pierrot with that of paratrooper training regimens. Ten metres of screenprinted nylon is pleated into the shape of cargo drop parachutes alongside hair resembling Jean-Gaspard Deburau’s depiction of Pierrot in a skullcap.

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Styling Consult by Sabrina Che
Photographed by Pascal Emmeran
Modelled by Téo Dubreuil
Hair by Ben Grace

spatial interventions

May 01, 2019 in Styling, Consulting

spatial interventions

Anthropometry schematics, the chroma of skin human, and the extremes of the body in relation to interior spaces informed this design presented at Central Saint Martins’ annual White Show. Ultrasuede is lasercut to resemble skin grafting, hair tassels reference cilices worn by monks, a plastic corset is embroidered with an anthropometric diagram, and knitted bum-less knickers allude to the transgressive dance works of Michael Clark.

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Styling Consult by Sabrina Che
Photographed by Pascal Emmeran
Modelled by Mika Kailes
Hair by John Paul Scott

field dance

December 12, 2018 in Consulting, Styling

field dance

The start of an ongoing collaborative project with First Artist David Donnelly of the Royal Ballet, ‘field dance’ takes the form of movement studies informed by Robert Wilson’s masterwork ‘Einstein on the Beach.’ Nappa leather is lasercut in a technique akin to skin grafting, wool crepe is hand embroidered with an abstracted tongue designed by Nancy Riegelman, and merino wool armbands are knitted to resemble muscle fibres.

Katherine Helen Fisher says of performing Lucinda Childs’ choreography for the opera: “It’s challenging. It’s five and a half hours long. There are lots of clocks moving at differing rates, there’s a spaceship, a pipe, a glowing white cube.”

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Styling Consult by Sabrina Che
Photographed by Balint Barna
Modelled by David Donnelly

trichotomy

May 01, 2018 in Styling, Consulting

trichotomy

An exploration of the interplay between man and mechanism, primarily informed by Oskar Schlemmer's 1922 'Triadic Ballet.' Bauhaus furniture and tapestries were translated to shape and knitwear, and studies of breath created in collaboration with artist/illustrator Nancy Riegelman were rendered as hand embroideries.

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Styling Consult by Sabrina Che
Photographed by Jack Johnstone
Modelled by Mika Kailes

the infinite possibility of configuration

February 10, 2018 in Styling, Consulting

the infinite possibility of configuration

Linearity having infinite possibilities of configuration was the starting point for this series. The knit pattern is generated from a random integer algorithm that uses atmospheric noise to build the sequence; it is rendered in primary colors as red, blue, and yellow can form infinite possibilities of colour.

Designed by Michael Stukan
Creative + Style Consult by Sabrina Che
Photographed by Sierra Pruitt
Modelled by Felix Reitz de la Haye