The Mayor of Montréal, Gérald Tremblay, has awarded the 2009 Phyllis Lambert Design Montréal Grant to university professor and fashion designer Ying Gao. Created in honour of Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the $10,000 grant will enable Ying Gao to design “modulatable” garments, whose construction will be directly inspired by transformations in the urban environments of Berlin and Nagoya, both of which share UNESCO City of Design status with Montréal. In addition, the Ville de Montréal will contribute $5,000 to assist the recipient in promoting and disseminating her project.

 
The jury members - Giovanna Borasi, Benoit Dupuis, Angela Grauerholz, Marie-Josée Lacroix et Mario Masson - were unanimous in acknowledging the relevance of the link between the research project and the chosen cities (Berlin and Nagoya), and in their enthusiasm for picking this candidate. “Ying Gao has a decidedly avant-garde approach to fashion design, linking it to transformations taking place in cities. Moreover, her research encompasses several fields: fashion, textile technology, architecture, urban planning, interactivity and multimedia,” explained Benoit Dupuis, Partner Architect in the firm ACDF and spokesperson for the jury. Ying Gao has had a remarkable career thus far, having presented her projects in well-known venues in Montréal, Switzerland and Belgium, which demonstrates her desire to disseminate and share knowledge.

 

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