CHOPAR’s X-COLLECTION – CALCIUM 2016

Ida Frost and Maria Ipsen about the proces and work with the clothes brand CHOPAR and the X-collection called CALCIUM 2016

Like last year’s X-Collection UPSIDE DOWN 2015 it was again important to create a collection that was authentic to CHOPAR, as a gymnastics and movement brand. At the same time we wanted to challenge new materials, sources of inspiration and thereby the perception of what CHOPAR’s gymnastic and performance styles could look like.
Our source of inspiration came, as the title supports, from CALCIUM. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body and in nature. That became our staringpoint for this year’s X-Collection.

We worked with how to incorporate colors and shades from nature and the body with Calcium’s white and gray shades. Furthermore, Calcium’s ability to transform itself, as well as bond with other substances, was an inspiration for how the CALCIUM collection’s different pieces was put together as the different pieces can be worn in different ways.

For example. the belt which can be also be used and transformed into a top, belt or skirt.

We hope you will welcome the collection.”

DANSK:
“Som sidste års X-Collection har det igen været vigtigt at skabe en kollektion, der var autentisk overfor CHOPAR, som gymnastik -og bevægelsesbrand, men som samtidig udfordrede nye materialer, inspirationskilder og hermed opfattelsen af hvad CHOPARs opvisningstøj er og kan.

Vores inspirationskilde kom, som titlen understøtter, fra CALCIUM. Kalk er det mineral, der findes allermest af i kroppen og naturen. Det blev dermed vores omdrejningspunkt for dette års X-Collection.

Vi har leget med hvordan vi inkorporerer farver og nuancer fra naturen og kroppen med Calciums hvide og grå nuancer. Yderligere var Calciums evne til at transformere sig, samt binde sig med andre stoffer, en inspiration til hvordan CALCIUM kollektionen kunne sammensættes og være i stand til at bæres på forskellige måder.
F.eks. bæltet som kan bruges og omformes på forskellige måder, så det både kan bruges som top, bælte eller skørt. Vi håber I vil tage godt i mod kollektionen.”