A native of Bordeaux, France, fashion designer Pierre Antoine Vettorello is a 28 years old Brussels-based fashion designer who graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2010. While this information is pretty basic, the creator's designs are anything but.Melding sci-fi, sculpture, art, fashion, and a dystopian sensibility, through his work Vettorello provides intriguing peeks into a fantastical world only he can see:
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With his new work, the artist has set out to connect fashion and technology by working GPS computer boards and LED lights into wearable bomber jackets. "Over the last years wearable technologies are taking a big part into new product developments," Vettorelo told us, "and I believe fashion will change radically…"
A glimpse of Vettorelo's LED bomber jacket, appearing for the first time on The Creators Project.
Published in magazines and websites such as Wound, Elle, Vogue Italia, French revue de mode, WAD, and others, you can currently see two exhibitions of his work: the first at the Mode Museum in Antwerp for the 50 years of the Fashion exhibit (Department of the Royal Academy) titled Happy Birthday Dear Academie and curated by former teacher (and member of the Antwerp Six avant-garde collective) designer Walter van Beirendock.The second exhibition, Arrrgh! Monsters in Fashion, will be appearing at the Central Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and is curated by the Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture from Athens.Easily fitting in with the darkly surrealist Antwerp school that also includes designers Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten, we see bright (but delightfully dark) things in Vettorelo's future.For more of Pierre Antoine Vettorello's designs, you can visit his website here.
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A glimpse of Vettorelo's LED bomber jacket, appearing for the first time on The Creators Project.
Published in magazines and websites such as Wound, Elle, Vogue Italia, French revue de mode, WAD, and others, you can currently see two exhibitions of his work: the first at the Mode Museum in Antwerp for the 50 years of the Fashion exhibit (Department of the Royal Academy) titled Happy Birthday Dear Academie and curated by former teacher (and member of the Antwerp Six avant-garde collective) designer Walter van Beirendock.The second exhibition, Arrrgh! Monsters in Fashion, will be appearing at the Central Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and is curated by the Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture from Athens.Easily fitting in with the darkly surrealist Antwerp school that also includes designers Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten, we see bright (but delightfully dark) things in Vettorelo's future.For more of Pierre Antoine Vettorello's designs, you can visit his website here.
