TANU VASU

Grey Sheep

Location

sydney

Tanu Vasu produces hybrid forms of clothing equating artisanal practice with innovation in fabric. Tanu’s designs combine mutuality between ideological abstractions from bygone eras and subjective perceptions. Her design style is modeled on incorporating components of sculpture, innovative materials and traditional craftsmanship within her practice. Tanu has adopted fashion as an artistic expression by using visual language as a guide to lead the audience through her collections. Imagination yields authority within Tanu’s design practice, often provoking paradoxical relationships between elation and poignancy, modernity and antiquity. Tanu has achieves a distinct visual signature within her collections through taking ideas from a number of domains.
“I see fashion as a concentrated mode of individualism accompanied by desire, fashion provides a conduit to challenge the limitations of our aesthetic adjudications and social continuums, I intersect this tension through amplifying the ethereal notions with fragments of severity. Concepts of the perpetual are heightened into a distinct state, which bring about my compulsion to exalt historical ideas with the use of contemporary and traditional methods through generating ideas into specific shapes and patterns.
I often syncopate forms to draw a parallel with the base concept and redevelop this state to intensify the subjective awareness. Clothing is a medium through which I can deplete the human figure from its natural form by enhancing and regenerating contours. I often develop ideas through research of various historic, scientific, musical, geographic and literary notions.“

Latest Collection

Inferno

The framework of ‘Inferno’ is based on iconography and the creatures dwelling within the circles of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. The collection explores the immersion of Dante within his Inferno and his subjective experiences with the characters, he intersects on his journey. Tanu identified with Gustave Dore’s etchings of Dante’s work to gain visual knowledge of Dante’s vision. Figures from Inferno have been taken from their restricted properties into a further enhanced state through the use of fabric manipulation and symbolic fabrics. Futuristic themes are into distinct forms, alluding to the snakes and serpents through the arrangement of their structure. A series of individually crafted elements represent the creatures and create a distinct visual signature whilst retaining an artisanal sensibility. The central geometry is the line used to create the coiled pieces and tree embellishments. The explored through the manipulation of simple geometries collection is made of natural fabrics ranging from silk to cotton. The embellishments were created with acetate and acrylic fibers enhanced with a gloss glaze. Through the use of innovative technique combined with unique fabrics, Tanu has translated her future vision through complex shapes and three-dimensional assemblies while imbuing exposure of self through this method. The collection maintains an aesthetic inclination towards neutral tones with an emphasis on copper and black, focusing on Dante’s state of mind while exploring hell.

Designer: Tanu Vasu Model: Leah Brown Photographer: Daniela Raiti Hair stylist: Sanja Jovic