New geometry: Galya Rosenfeld

Hemmings, Jessica (2006) New geometry: Galya Rosenfeld. Future Materials, 1 (3).

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Abstract

At first glance, San Francisco based designer Galya Rosenfeld’s innovation is apparent in the structural ingenuity of her garments. What may be less obvious until you have the opportunity to handle and wear her clothing is the surprising realization that the hand of the fabric, its weight and substance, has great integrity. Rosenfeld’s style has an industrial feel, with surfaces resembling the pixilation of television and computer monitors. These pixels, rather than needle and thread, are what hold her designs together. The precise and resolved sense of tailoring that Rosenfeld so capably engineers is part of a larger investigation which broadens definitions of both cloth construction and garment tailoring. “Boundaried boundlessness” is the term Sarat Maharaj has coined in reference to contemporary textile practice. Rosenfeld’s place, between bespoke design and the metres of mundane materials she uses, can be understood in these terms. Her work redefines the textile without looking beyond the textile. Her materials are the very stuff that has been staring us in the face. Her garments are not. They reorder the boundaries of garment construction, fashion consumption and the image of hand made material investigations.

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