These Floating Silk Scarves Become Colorful Sculptures

Famed New York design studio Karlssonwilker teamed up with Icelandic fashion brand Saga Kakala to create a series of beautiful silk scarves that double as art pieces. The Shizuka Collection consists of 7 scarves, and is named after Karlssonwilker designer Sandra Shizuka. Each features a piece of abstract art. Some suggest specific representational imagery,  like the scarf that depicts metallic-looking machinery, while others seem like pure abstraction. Even if you don’t buy a scarf from the collection yourself, the photographs the studio offers of them are works of art in their own rights. Captured floating in mid-air, the scarves become many-colored sculptural objects.

"The photography highlights the material’s flexibility. By removing the collider (a person), the silk is free to create its own shapes. We thought that shooting the scarves like this would show the object and the texture in different ways and fully focused on the scarf itself," Shizuka tells The Creators Project.

"For this specific project, we were interested in how strangely silk sits on a person's body, and how it distorts the scarf, reshuffls it’s surface, what’s printed on it," Shizuka writes. "And that the final “effects” are countless effects on top of each other, countless reiterations, making them unique. The design plays up the deliberate tridimensional distortion and uses asymmetric volumes, high-contrast textures, and abstract shapes to give emphasis to this idea of motion and malleability."

You can buy a scarf from the Shizuka Collection here.

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