STATUS BY SHTAMGUTS

Black Sheep

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Location

riga / latvia

University

art academy of latvia

Graduation year

2010

Main Manufacturing Countries

latvia

Contact

Artis Stamguts is a MA Fashion Design graduate of the Art Academy of Latvia. I have enriched my knowledge and experience in NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Italy, Milano and UDK - Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany.
I am currently a lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia, department of Fashion Art. I am interested in uniting the things we wear with art.
For me the construction of clothes is just as important as colour, fabric and so on. It becomes a part of the design.
I want to create new solutions to classic designs. I create clothes for more than one season.
Sometimes you have to take a closer look to reveal it completely. I care for the person who wears my clothes to look interesting not only from distance, but also when you get closer, stand next to and have conversation with them. Very often I involve philosophy, which can be understood through its relationship to the clothing itself.
I make clothes with a small amount of unreality, for dreamers who are not scared to dream, who dare to be different and are not afraid of what people will say.

Latest Collection

HUMANS

HUMANS
SPRING/WINTER 2019/20

COLLECTION HUMANS IS A STORY ABOUT A CONTEMPORARY TRAVELLER, WHO STARTS HIS JOURNEY TO TIBET DRESSED AS A PUNK, BUT ALL ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES TRANSFORM HIS URBAN OUTFIT INTO SOMETHING ELSE. THE TIBETIAN TEMPLES, THEIR MAGNIFICENT GOLDEN TOWERS AND COLOURFUL OPULENCE OF THE INTERIORS, THE TIBETIAN MONKS AND NATIVE PEOPLE, THE WAY THEY WEAR THEIR COSTUMES, ELEMENTS FROM THE CLOTHING OF OTHER TRAVELLERS, FROM OTHER CULTURES OR SUBCULTURES – EVERYTHING MELTS AND BLENDS INTO HIS ALREADY EDGY STYLE. YET HIS MAIN REVELATION IS OUTSIDE THE CULTURAL OR SUBCULTURAL BOUNDARIES – ALL BORDERS AND LIMITS ARE FICTIONAL – WE ARE ALL HUMANS.

THE COLLECTION IS CREATED FROM NATURAL MATERIALS OR NATURAL-LIKE SYNTHETICS. NATURAL FIBER VELVET, DENIM AND COTTON WOVEN FABRICS, FAUX FURS IN NATURAL AND NOT-SO-NATURAL TONES – THE PRESENCE OF ARTIFICIAL MATERIALS IS SUBTLE. CLASSIC PIED-DE-POULE PATTERNS IS USED INSTEAD OF TRADITIONAL TO PUNK CULTURE TARTAN FABRICS, LIKEWISE THE TRADITIONALLY SILVER-TONED METALLIC CLOSURES ARE REPLACED WITH BUCKLES AND ZIPPERS IN GOLDEN TONES, AND PYRAMID RIVETS, SPIKES ARE IN MULTICOLOUR TONES, GIVING A WARMER FEELING IN ASSOCIATIONS.

PHOTOGRAPHER - ELIZABETH JANE RUBEN
PLACE - WHITE STUDIO
MODELS - Alexey Haritonenko