Shaping Beauty

New York 2015: New York studio Snarkitecture has used patterns of the city's subway tiles and marbled surfaces to cover a range of clothes that allow the wearer to blend in with the urban environment.

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In a collaboration with custom print company Print All Over Me, Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham of Snarkitecture used repeated motifs based on architectural materials to create the collection of chameleonic clothing that is launching in New York this week.

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"The starting point was this idea of creating moments of architectural confusion, where you become visually lost within different material surfaces," said Snarkitecture.

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The Architectural Camouflage collection includes three prints. The first is based on the rectangular white tiles and black grouting that clad the walls and columns of many stations on New York's subway system.

Smaller hexagonal tiles in the same colour scheme are also used as a repeated pattern, while the final design is based on marbled surfaces, with the grey veins of the white stone covering the clothing.

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"There's also the possibility of material displacement – so that when you wear your all-subway-tile outfit to the park, it looks and feels as if you've brought a piece of architecture into a different environment," the studio said.

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The patterns are digitally printed onto the fabrics, which are then washed so the dye fuller penetrates and adheres to the fibres. The garments are then assembled and shipped directly to the customer.

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