Barely 26, Gaspard Fleury-Dugy has a knack for shaking things up. A designer and visual artist, this young man of thread and machine creates an independent, contemporary textile vocabulary.
A grandmother who taught him how to sew by hand, a grandfather who worked in a metal fence weaving factory; these and other influences unconsciously nurtured his relationship with materials. In high school, observation-based drawing didn’t suit him, so he developed a reaction to it. “During my studies at Duperré and then at the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås, Sweden, in 2023, I discovered the potential of 3D knitting,” he points out. At Duperré, he explored its technical dimensions with family knitting machines, “machines from the 1970s that bridge the gap between the technicality of needle knitting and industrial knitting”. He also discovered a computer-controlled “flatbed industrial knitting machine”, enabling him to produce extremely fine knitwear, which he then used as a 3D printer. “It allowed me to create tension and volume.”