GO!25 Borderless Award powered by Regione FVG

technical description

Fully hand-stitched gladiator-inspired tank top made by leftover knitted denim fabric from Ju Bao's final collection. The pleat skirt is made using different experimental denim color swatches to explore a strange color gradation. The silk thread shorts are made by crocheted light roses, grapes, lilies of the valley and snails.

concept

Designer Ju Bao’s creative process consistently challenges him to create without borders, transcending boundaries, whether they are between streetwear and art nouveau, denim and sweater, or even borders between countries. Everything can be seamlessly integrated within the framework of fashion and knitting. His GO!25 project serves as a natural extension of his ITS Contest collection. Although Gorizia and Nova Gorica have been divided into two cities by a national border, they share the same biodiversity under the same geographical and climatic conditions. They also share the continental climate which allows the growth of two plants that have become representative of their different cultures. Ju Bao selected the roses of Nova Gorica and the grape vines of Gorizia, placing them organically within an Art Nouveau framework, thus creating an outfit that is kind of a symbiotic organism blurring boundaries between the two cities.