Danish fashion brand, Stine Goya, is known for offering a colourful and vibrant alternative in a saturated fashion industry. Spacon & X was asked to set the stage for the Goya AW22 fashion show; a show that creates the illusion of an ‘inside-out universe’, playing with the boundaries between the digital and the physical.

For their latest collection, Stine Goya drew essential inspiration from artist Olafur Eliasson’s masterpiece work, ’LIFE’. Eliasson’s exhibition represents a vision of life as abstract and blurs the line between reality and illusion, nature and virtual, through a set-up of digital projections, mirrors and artificial elements that play with the human eye and its perception of the world. In conceptualising the set design, Spacon & X continued to dwell on Goya’s inspiration of Eliasson, maintaining the aesthetics of the new clothing collection and the Stine Goya brand identity as key pillars in creating a unique universe for the show. A fashion collection that features a collage of organic forms, elevated shapes and searing colour and material combinations; with distorted and layered materials hand-painted with patterns of ‘’floral abundance’’ that collide with water-inspired prints.

The show was hosted in the enigmatic halls of Designmuseum Danmark, a space that entails a vital element of character, charm and potential in itself. The materials in the newly renovated halls include eloquent marble floors and generous window placements, which contributed to materialising the 1-day site-specific design. The set design had a clear aim of creating a concept that framed the collection within the room without taking anything from the magnificent room. The key challenge was to create a design that respected the requirements of the listed space. The solution was integrating technological elements that would enhance, reflect, and reframe the surrounding input.

To bring Stine Goya’s vision of an ‘inside out universe’ Spacon & X aimed to create a sense of reality that is a subjective matter to the individual observer, and dependent on which media you observe it through. Spacon & X decided to work with the space between reality and artificiality, by framing a virtual parallel space in the physical reality. Spacon created a new dimension where the human and architectural aspects of the runway came together and were enhanced and mirrored by a subversive digital perspective created by interactive and digital screens during the show.

In the set design, Spacon & X recreated how nature responds to human interaction by employing the old technique of a feedback loop between camera and screen. When the models on the runway walked between the camera and the screen, a digital artificial ripple effect was evoked reminiscent of someone sweeping their hands through a meadow of flowers.