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Fashion designer Johan Ku breaks the boundaries between sculpture and fashion with Emotional Sculpture.

Johan Ku  sits across from me at a coffee shop dressed in a plain black T-shirt and jeans — a remarkable contrast from the wildly inventive rough wool designs that are a hallmark of his fashion aesthetic.

Ku has earned plaudits and awards over the past five years for creating a series of knitwear collections that bridge the gap between fashion design and sculpture.

But Ku’s fashion tastes don’t end with haute couture; he has worked with local companies to design ready-to-wear swimsuits and was costume producer for the Taiwanese television drama Hot Shot, also known as Basketball Fire. He says, however, that his first love is designing runway fashion.

Next month, Ku will travel to New York as a finalist in Gen Art Styles International Design Competition, an annual fashion design competition judged by a who’s who list of magazine editors (Vogue, GQ, Details and Marie Claire) and buyers (Saks Fifth Avenue and La Garconne) from the fashion industry. Ku is a finalist in the competition’s avant-garde category. Winners will be announced on July 15.......

Read more at -  http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2009/06/10/2003445836 or visit his website at -  http://www.johanku.com/index.html