Andre and Coqueline Courreges: Design Heroes | Spring 2023 | 13 weeks | Individual
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Motion Graphics, Animation
Andre and Coqueline Courreges were lovers with a shared vision.
The inventors of the go-go boot and arguably the mini skirt, the Courreges were visionaries of the Space Age. Their iconic silhouette of flat boots and short dresses came from their belief in the new modern woman: active, sporty, working, and free, yet still distinctly femme. Flat shoes liberated the woman and her movement from the heel, and experiments with new synthetic fabrics drove fashion into a sporting age. The animation is a balance of retro, girly, and an adventure into space. The full video can be viewed here↗.
A story about love and women’s liberation through fashion.
This 16-page booklet guides through the evolution of André and Coqueline, as fledgelings meeting in the Balenciaga atelier, marrying, and progressing to start their own brand, highlighting their ethos and futuristic hopes.
Informational Poster
The patterning in the COURREGES type was made through a shape packing algorithm in Processing and refined in Illustrator. This poster was the most challenging part of the project for me, and I later came back to redesign this as my system fleshed itself out while designing the booklet and video. You can see my process for my first pass here.
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