Dust to Dust (Film + Talk)
On Wednesday 16 October, InScience will show the film Dust to Dust at 19:00 in Focus Filmtheater Arnhem. The screening of this documentary, about the famous Japanese fashion designer Yuima Nakazato who tries to merge his unique artistic vision with sustainable and green technology, will be provided with a side program. This program is a collaboration with Innovate and Focus Arnhem.
Dust to Dust
Renowned Japanese fashion designer Yuima Nakazato is a key figure in the ethical production movement. The second Japanese designer ever invited to Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, Nakazato is dedicated to merging his unique artistic vision with sustainable, green technology. Kosai Sekine’s film Dust to Dust chronicles Nakazato’s journey into socially responsible fashion, from the landfills of Kenya to the runway of Paris. Through his ethereal designs, Yuima Nakazato radically reimagines the fashion industry, emphasizing a future where creativity and care for the world go hand in hand. The film follows his creative journey towards his 2023 Haute Couture collection.
Dust to Dust is the winner of the 2024 Human/Nature Award, a prize created to reward a film that best exemplifies solutions-oriented environmental storytelling.
Talk with Pauline van Dongen
Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen specializes in wearable technology. She designs and develops smart textiles and clothing in a holistic way, inviting us ‘to see technology as a material with which we can create new relationships between people and clothing. In this way, we go beyond the functionality paradigm of smart clothing and initiate a new design movement that emphasizes the value of the physical, sensory experience of clothing and its caring properties.’ In October 2019, Van Dongen obtained her PhD with the dissertation A Designer’s Material – Aesthetics Reflections on Fashion and Technology.
In the panel discussion following the screening of Dust to Dust, Van Dongen talks about how she integrates technology, sustainability, form and function in her work in an innovative way. For example, she developed textiles with solar cells, luminous sportswear and smart, touch-sensitive denim, and she also uses new developments in 3D printed fashion that use body scanning, generative design tools and the application of printed electronic sensors and conductive yarns and coatings in textiles. ‘Technology is not the starting point of our designs, it is never about ‘technology for technology’s sake’. Our designs begin and end with the body, or more specifically: a moving body in space.’