NEW YORK – A recently launched luxury fashion brand incorporates satellite imagery of cities from around the world into lavish materials and beautiful designs. Azin Valy, co-founder of New York City-based architecture firm I-Beam Design, took inspiration from research for an exhibition on urban planning for MoMA. According to Valy, ‘stunning views of cities from above evoked a sense of diverse inhabitants sharing similar aspirations, providing the spark for Cityzen by Azin’.
The 2013 collection, launched in January this year, includes gowns, cocktail dresses, travel accessories, leather bags and silk scarves. The design takes advantage of the cities’ topography using rivers or streets to accentuate the curves of the body or create straps, for example.
The brand’s main goal is to promote dialogue through fashion and to be able to fund and call attention to causes in the different cities and continents highlighted in the stunning garments. Cityzen believes ‘the arts can bridge differences, technology can reveal beauty, interconnectivity leads to new discoveries, and taking the long view brings commonality into focus’.
Images courtesy of Mani Zarrin
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