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Toge by Emmanuelle Moureaux
Tokyo 2011: French designer Emmanuelle Moureaux presented a wedding dress made from 500 snowflake-like baubles at this year's DesignTide Tokyo.
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Named Toge, which is the Japanese word for ‘thorn’, the spiky shapes are made from wire that is more commonly used for the strings inside pianos.
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The bristles of the modular products were slotted together to create the dress, but can also be used to construct freestanding sculptures and partitions in an assortment of rainbow colours.
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Emmanuelle Moureaux is based in Tokyo and exhibited another modular product at the design festival there last year - you can see more of our stories about the designer here.
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Photography is by Daisuke Shimokawa and Nacasa & Partners.
The following text is from Emmanuelle Moureaux:
“Sharp-pointed thorns. It is a manifestation of its aggressiveness that it will not let others come near, and a manifestation of its own weakness. Aggressiveness and Weakness. When wrapped around in the two conflicting senses, I feel like reaching out and touch the pain in spite of myself.”
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“toge” meaning “ thorn” in Japanese, is a modular product that combines (interlocking to each other) freely to create spaces.
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“toge” could be used as an architectural module for creating spaces, walls or partitions, or for creating free-standing sculptural pieces.
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“toge” looks soft and light as dandelion flowers but is hard as a sea urchin or chesnut.
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For its 1st presentation at DESIGNTIDE TOKYO 2011, emmanuelle designed a wedding dress made up of 500 pieces.
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Material: piano wire / epoxy resin
Weight: 2g / toge
Size: 147mm
Colors: 14 colors + white