The Passive Sleep collection

Patterns and kimonos for AMA AWE

Reactive digital printing; patterns hand-drawn in ink and gouache · 2017

Habotai silk and ECONYL

Photography: Iza Boëthius

About the project

The Passive Sleep collection was created for AMA AWE in 2017. The three kimonos shown here bring Amandah L’Narte’s hand-drawn surface patterns together with different silhouettes, materials and print placements.

On the long Melting World kimono, Passive Sleep appears in pastel colours as a placement print, framed by black-and-white geometric borders and dripping forms.

Replaceable Souls is a long black-and-white kimono featuring a placement print of striped fields, hands and a face with closed eyes. The short Blob kimono has an all-over pattern of white organic forms against black.

The original patterns were created by hand in ink and gouache, then transferred to habotai silk and ECONYL using reactive digital printing.

The long Melting World kimono from the back, with the pastel pattern panel hanging beneath a black-and-white arch and dripping forms near the hem.

The long Replaceable Souls kimono from the front, with a black-and-white placement print of striped fields, hands and dotted patterns framed by geometric borders.

The short Blob kimono from the front, with white organic shapes against black, ties and a narrow geometric border along the edges.

A model wearing the long Replaceable Souls kimono, seen from behind with arms outstretched to show the black-and-white print with a striped face across the back.