Project 01
The eye believes everything it is shown. Here, it is shown too much: lines that bend where nothing bends, stillness that trembles, depth where there is only surface. Seeing turns into doubting, and doubting into delight. The illusion is not the trick. The illusion is the point.
The four looks
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Explore the looks: sketch to runwayGarments that appear in motion, even at rest.
Delightfully Disoriented begins with Victor Vasarely, the father of Op Art, and above all with his Zebra series: two animals drawn in nothing but black and white stripes, their bodies dissolving into each other until you can no longer tell where one ends and the other begins.
This collection takes that trick and puts it on the body. Bold lines, geometries and colour contrasts are reinterpreted through fashion, so that static silhouettes meet dynamic patterns and the garment seems to move even when the wearer is standing still.
Four prints carry the illusion. A seamless swirl on grey that spins without ever turning. A black-and-white zigzag that tunnels toward the centre of the chest. Vasarely’s intertwined zebras, abstracted until they read as a single mark. And a psychedelic radial burst that runs from a hot red core through yellow, purple and blue.
The silhouettes stay deliberately quiet: oversized coats, a sleeveless tabard, one draped shawl. That restraint is what lets the prints do the talking. Crisp denim is set against soft black knit, printed white denim against black poly-suede, and printed corduroy is draped in three panels, so hard and soft pull against each other the same way the patterns pull against the eye.
By playing with visual miscommunication, the designs turn minimalist forms into powerful statements. Fashion stops being something you simply look at and becomes something you experience: an immersive, perceptual space you are invited to step into.
The full Grad Show Mumbai portfolio: print, fabric and hardware charts, technical flats, illustrations and the final capsule collection. 19 pages.
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