Harald Lunde Helgesen

Bournemouth, UK/ Oslo, Norway

www.hlh.no

Originally from Oslo, Norway, Harald Lunde Helgesen attended the Art University College at Bournemouth where he was already gaining international recognition even before he graduated by winning the Hyères Festival's 2009 Swarovski Crystalized Elements Award. For Project White T-Shirt, Harald noted that while the white t-shirt represents the most basic element of clothing, it is still constructed by at least two cuts of fabric. He sought to further simplify the "simplest garments of all garments" by cutting lines across one flat sheet of material. The garment gains body if intervals of the resulting strips are separated and the wearer slips into the interior space created. In this way Harald employed a basic technique to simplify the most elemental clothing article and created something entirely revolutionary in the process.