KNTLGY FW24
More work · 2023

KNTLGY FW24

Print design for KNTLGY's FW24 collection, built on parametric studies

A model in a black knit top with a blue jacquard across the chest and sleeve, one hand on the hip, looking up
  • Year2023
  • ClientKNTLGY
  • RoleDemand Generation Artist
  • ScopeParametric studies, final prints and engineered placement on the garments
  • Built WithAdobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, CLO 3D, Rhinoceros 3D and Grasshopper
The work

KNTLGY (Knitology) is a knitwear brand from Istanbul that works between physical and digital fashion. It designs on screen to cut down on physical samples, and its collections also live as digital garments on DressX and in Spatial. I designed the prints for FW24, across its two collections, GEN and SEN.

Each print began as a parametric study in Grasshopper, inside Rhino. I tuned the parameters to bring KNTLGY's next-gen side together with its Istanbul and Turkish roots, and the studies drew line fields and grids that swell and buckle. I picked the strongest of these untouched outputs and refined them by hand into the final prints. Each print was then engineered to a garment from the collection, placed on its pattern pieces and shaped by its cut, so a maze sits differently on a dress than on a waistband.

  1. ScriptRhino and Grasshopper. The Istanbul woman and the GEN and SEN mottos go in as the inputs.
  2. ArtworkIllustrator and Photoshop. I finished the chosen drawings as vector prints and colorways.
  3. GarmentCLO 3D. The prints were dressed on the real designs, so each piece has a digital twin.
Parametric 07: a dense field of black flow lines curling into eddies, printed on a white sheet
Parametric 08: loose black curves of changing weight looping around one another on a white sheet
Three narrow parametric strips side by side: a chain of diamonds, a chain of rings and a wider form of nested contours

From the line fields the studies grew into families: organic textures in blue, mazes drawn from the square kufic KNTLGY mark, and wireframe solids. The compositions bring the families together and run through colorways in black, blue and white.

Composition 03: two spheres of tangled line work joined by a band of glitched bars, black on white
The same composition in twelve colorways on black, blue and white grounds
An organic print: a blue galaxy spiral breaking into grain on white
An all-over maze print in blue and white, built from the square kufic KNTLGY mark
A wireframe print: a warped grid surface drawn in black lines
A blue terry hood with the kufic maze raised in the pile, pulled over the face, one hand open on the fabric
A model in dark glasses facing the camera in a blue knit dress, the white maze placed across the skirt
A model crouching in a black bustier and split skirt, blue wireframe lines across the bustier and waist
The back of a cream knit top with the organic line print knitted in gold thread and a KNTLGY label at the neck
Black knit shorts with the maze knitted into a blue and black waistband
A model in dark glasses wearing a cream shirt with the wireframe print on its front panel

Prints for KNTLGY's FW24 collection. Photography © Knitology.

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