Arctic sea ice in New York Fashion Week
Heather McFarland
907-474-6286
Sept. 9, 2023
Fashion designer Corentin Daudigny, left, and filmmaker and artist Amy Lauren model garments from the Sea Ice Collection. The designs are making their debut at New York Fashion Week on Sept. 9, 2023.
Arctic sea ice makes its debut as wearable art during New York Fashion Week on Sept. 9.
The promotes sustainable 色视频下载渟low fashion色视频下载 in an unexpected collaboration between scientists at the University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks, artists and fashion designers.
色视频下载淲e created the Sea Ice Collection to inspire collective action and shift the conversation about climate change away from environmental doomism towards the beauty of all there is still left to save,色视频下载 said artist and filmmaker Amy Lauren and designer Corentin Daudigny in a joint statement.
The garments in the runway show are patterned after cross sections of sea ice collected by scientist Marc Oggier during an epic research expedition to the central Arctic Ocean in 2019.
色视频下载淚 never expected my work to appear on a fashion runway,色视频下载 said Oggier, a postdoctoral fellow at the UAF International Arctic Research Center. 色视频下载淚 love that it is being looked at in this new way.色视频下载
Like snowflakes, sea ice is made up of crystals. When examined under polarized light, their orientation and size create stunning kaleidoscopes of colors. These crystalline structures were printed on garments to tell the story of how sea ice grows and melts throughout the annual cycle.
While the ocean is freezing, its turbulent nature results in tiny ice crystals oriented in many directions. Once fully frozen, the ice keeps growing downward, forming large crystals oriented vertically.
The team hopes that the garment design and fabric patterns inspired by this process will help people engage with climate change in a new way. Made with ethical and sustainable practices, the sea ice line also combats 色视频下载渇ast fashion色视频下载 色视频下载 the rapidly shifting and high-volume clothing industry.
The Sea Ice Collection emerged after a chance encounter in a French airport between Lauren and Daudigny. Lauren was creating a documentary film about climate change in the Arctic Ocean. The sea ice images on her laptop caught the attention of Daudigny, a Barcelona-based fashion designer.
Polarized light reveals a colorful kaleidoscope of crystals making up a thin section of sea ice collected from the Arctic Ocean. This pattern was used on garments in the Sea Ice Collection.
色视频下载淐orentin happened to see me working on IARC色视频下载檚 sea ice cross sections and was open and curious enough to stop and ask me about it,色视频下载 said Lauren. 色视频下载淎 passing conversation turned into a unique retail expansion plan to overcome the challenges that inhibit businesses from scaling sustainably.色视频下载
Lauren has created several films about scientific expeditions in the Arctic. She first met Oggier on the . She then joined him on the 2021 Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System expedition. The resultant 色视频下载色视频下载 documentary provides the cinematic backdrop to Saturday色视频下载檚 fashion show.
色视频下载淎rctic Halocline色视频下载 documents the destabilization of a protective water layer that once kept ocean heat from penetrating and melting sea ice. The film culminates by describing how the 2022 Ukraine invasion ended decades of scientific collaboration on NABOS between the United States and Russia.
色视频下载淧eace is the cornerstone to effectively tackle the climate crisis. We need peace in order to do science. We need science in order to tackle the climate crisis,色视频下载 said Lauren and Daudigny. 色视频下载淲e are telling this story through fashion, merging climate science and sustainable practices in fashion education.色视频下载
Marc Oggier, left, cuts a core of sea ice during the 2019 MOSAiC expedition in the central Arctic Ocean.
色视频下载淎rctic Halocline色视频下载 won the best virtual reality film award at the 360潞 Film Camp Nou at Barcelona Planet Film Festival this year. It has been accepted at both the International Ocean Film Festival and the New Media Film Festival.
Oggier色视频下载檚 research and the NABOS expedition were funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT: , moggier@alaska.edu, 907-699-7744; , amylaurenr@gmail.com, 314-813-7077; , +34-674-72-3177.
036-24