Yuri Pardi's Monument graduate fashion collection
Graduate shows 2015: garments appear to be carved from stone in University of East London graduate Yuri Pardi's Minimalism-influenced fashion collection.
Pardi showed his Monument collection during UEL's catwalk show on Sunday, as part of Graduate Fashion Week held at London's Old Truman Brewery.
His grey wool garments are intended to extend parts of the body to create minimal, angular forms. The rigid volumes that protrude from the back of each outfit are created by foam sheets tucked into pockets underneath the clothing.
"I designed garments that morph from the shapes of the body into 'pure' geometrical shapes," Pardi told Dezeen.
"I wanted to create a collection that could show that reduction and Minimalism are far from boring, and can be just as powerful as other visualities without being as loud," he said.
The most dramatic example is a basic dress extended backward with bulky squarish blocks, which are reminiscent of the armoured fins of a Stegosaurus.
Worn over a long-sleeved top, the floor-length dress only has two seams that run from front to back down the edges of the blocks.
"The challenge was to identify, on the flat pattern cutting, the moment when the traditional lines of tailoring proceed into the shapes of a flattened polyhedron and still keep the seams to a minimum," said Pardi.