Cassette Playa 2010 Fall/Winter Collection

For those familiar with the work of British-based brand Cassette Playa, the vivid imagery and penchant for bright neon colors is all but expected season to season. However for the 2010 fall/winter presentation of Carri Munden’s N E U R O M A N C E collection, she employs augmented reality to further accentuate her futuristic themes. Each model entered the world of augmented reality which allowed them to interact between both physical and virtual worlds. A press release below details the project as well as this season’s inspirations.

Cassette Playa returns to London Fashion week on schedule with a live augmented reality digital presentation.

Essentially a Unisex brand, Cassette Playa debuted its first women’s wear looks in New York last season. Having previously presented SS09 in Paris, Utube Utopia at Pitti Uomo and showing the previous 3 seasons as catwalks at Fashion East Man.

For this presentation Cassette Playa worked with funding from LDA and the expertise of the digital department of LCF to write softwear for wearable augmented reality (AR). This will be the world’s first Fashion Augmented reality show. The models interaction with the program activates CP symbols on the models garments that will generate computer generated 3D animations. These will then be viewed in real time by the audience in an amalgamation of real and virtual worlds.

Cassette Playa explores the boundaries between reality and fantasy. They ask us to consider Fashion as communication and also as an avatar i.e. projected visual representation of self.

Their work is inspired by sci fi dreams and is conditioned by the technologies that bring these dreams closer to an actuality.

“I don’t want to make a computer game like real life, I want to make real life more like a computer game. Through our daily interactions with technology and new forms of increasingly visual online communication, sci fi dreams of cybernetics already exist, if abstractly. We are all cyborgs in 2010. ”

-carri munden cassette playa

N E U R O M A N C E = “ VIOLENCE KNOWLEDGE EMOTION “

AW1011 is a capsule collection of Industrial, and mediEVIL references. Thrash, Death + Black metal imagery.

Digital printed silk detailing and embroidered patches, feature on L/S tees, Melton wool Tailoring, zip up hooded tops and cropped nappa leather bombers. The range also includes assault vests with neoprene pocket details, graphic tees with CGI blood and chrome with glow in the dark screen prints.

Signature Cassette Playa digital print is in repeats of stoned and molten plastic textured leopard print and blood soaked diamante camo on silk, chiffon and Lycra. Colours are photocopy black and white with high lights of stain glass bights – blue, scarlet, acid green and fuchsia.

CP AW1011 C R E D I T S

AUGMENTED REALITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT + 3D ANIMATION

FASHION DIGITAL STUDIO@LCF (PHILIP DELAMORE, DAVID SWEENEY, PETER HILL)

ART DIRECTION CARRI MUNDEN + THOMAS MANATON
SHOW MUSIC MILO CORDELL (THE BIG PINK / MEROK RECORDS) + PREETESH HIRJI

Featuring ZOMBY, SEWN LEATHER + SALEM

STYLING JASON FARRER @DEFACTO
INTRO VISUALS ENO WEIRDCORE
HAIR CHARLIE LE MINDU
MAKE UP ADAM@ ILLAMASQUA
MODELS JAY READ, RYAN@PREMIER, HOLLI S @DI MODELS

SHOES NIKE SPORTSWEAR + ALPINESTARS
PRESS / FRONT OF HOUSE MELANIE ASHLEY

SHOW PRODUCTION MELODY DOWNING
FILMING GRACE LADOJA
SPECIAL THANKS TO LDA / KNOWLEDGE CONNECT PROGRAMME / MANDI LENNARD ML PR / CRAIG, ANNOUSHKA + HARLEY A NUMBER OF NAMES / RUSS CROOKED TONGUES / DAVID ELSBC / KERRY SHAW NIKE / CHRIS BLOMN / GREG MUNDEN

THANKS + LOVE TO CP FAMILY = LIAM HODGES, ALEX MATTERSON, JOSH FINDER, ASHLEY, ANNIE, CARLY, SAREENA, ELENA, DYLAN + ABIEED