KIM MESCHES IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF FASHION, ART, AND SCIENCE.

Meet Kim Mesches, a New York designer and stylist mixing fashion, art, and science into each of his handmade sculptures. Using heat activated technology to create color changing pieces, his artworks serve multiple functions; it can be worn one day and hung up on your wall to marvel at the next. worn by the likes of cardi b and normani, mesche’s pieces reflect a new era of fashion technology.

How did you find yourself at the intersection of fashion and science?

I consider myself an artist first and foremost. I make wearable sculptures that can be worn on and off figure. I don’t like thinking of what I do as a brand because I don’t do seasons, it’s more creating pieces and collections of works. It started organically really through experimentation and working on different art.

Is there a specific artist or art style that has inspired your sculptures?

So many, I am inspired by surrealist art, brutalist art, architecture, couture designers like Iris Van Herpen, Junya Watanabe, Rick Owens, old collections from Alexander McQueen the list goes on, nature is always a big inspiration. Trying to recreate naturally occurring textures is always a challenge. 

Can you describe your creative process in creating a collection?

It usually starts with an overarching idea, experimenting with one type of material, trial and error and then it grows from there. For example Collection 4 I wanted to create pieces only from using what I already had, so I used old cast pieces, fabrics that were sitting around the studio to make a completely up-cycled body of work.

In ‘Collection 5,’ your pieces have a fluidity to them despite being completely solid. Could you tell us more about this juxtaposition?

That’s always an on going part of my work I want to create a confused feeling of how? I love that tension between something stuck and something fluid. 

What’s one of your biggest lessons throughout this creative journey? What drives you to keep creating?

Keep going. Keep trying. Most of the treatments I do in my sculptures is purely from experimentation. Just try and try again.