Vlad Tenu was invited to create a display installation for the Autumn/Winter 2015 collection of the brand CLON8. Entitled ‘2815’, the collection is a retro-futuristic response inspired by the desire for space exploration. In line with the collection’s sources of inspiration, the proposed piece is entitled COSMIC BUBBLE and   addresses the utopian scenario of space colonisation and the idea of a protective ‘wearable micro-climate’, alluding to the evolution of a space suit to a plasmatic micro-atmospheric bubble. The piece was exhibited at the Paris Fashion Week 2015, in the BeNext showroom situated in Marais.

The design is influenced by early science-fiction or space artists such as Don Davis or Syd Mead, exploring a process of form-finding around the human body as a synthesis of the symmetrical, the centrifugal and the gravitational. The prototype is conceived in line with the constraints of budget and transportability, being designed as a flat pack component assembly system, with a minimum weight and dimensions needed to achieve the 2.1m tall transparent bubble. The transparency is a key element of the installation which has dictated the need for designing a  fastener free bespoke connection system between the pieces of the assembly, maintaining a pristine clear volatile appearance of the piece.