8045

Reykjavik, Iceland

www.kristjansson-boas.com

Bóas Kristjánsson's progressive take on unisex knit garments has been gaining a lot of attention after his recent debut at Paris Men's Fashion Week, with his collection set to hit stores worldwide next summer. Yet his talents are not limited to design; Bóas also works with music, video art, and photography. For his project, he used photography to express the idea of a "negative T-shirt" by shooting a model draped with t-shirt fabric, covering all of her body except for her torso. In this way, Bóas leaves an interesting negative space and reverses the conventional relationship of t-shirt and skin. The use of aluminum highlights the gradation and adds dimension to the piece, qualities that feature consistently in Bóas's work.