Fashion, Features March 22, 2010 By Eugene Rabkin

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    His humble view notwithstanding, Laurini produces some meticulously designed and unconventionally constructed garments. He creates his own fabrics from yarns that he carefully selects from small suppliers around the world, and then goes through an intricate creative process that allows him to manifest complicated ideas. “Every piece is a new project for me,” says Laurini, “There is a lot of research behind it. For example, I am fascinated by mistakes. I think that making mistakes is intrinsically human. But, machines also make mistakes and people tend to get mad at the machines for that. I like that machines can make mistakes. This sweater,” Laurini said as he handed me a brown garment punctured by chalk thread, “is a result of a deliberate exploration of machine-made mistake. The outer side should be completely brown and the inner one chalk color, but all the lines come from a machine using wrong thread tension. This thread reversal happened by chance.” The seismograph effect, as Laurini called it, resulted in the uneven, jerky, and unstable lines that were nonetheless beautiful. They reminded me a little of the fractals of chaos theory.    Laurini’s fascination with imperfections resulted in another technique, called “broken-needle.” Indeed, it involved a needle that was snapped at its point, thus having a jagged edge. “On the way to making the garment, you destroy the fabric. If you do it in a precise way, you can achieve interesting results.”

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