Claudiu-Raul Pașcalău｜2025 SUSFUTURE 國際永續時尚設計展
／Artist 藝術家／
Pașcalău Claudiu-Raul, currently a Visual Arts PhD student, approaches fashion design as a medium for examining the inseparable relationship between the natural and the digital in contemporary culture.
His practice explores the psychological and social concepts that shape modern life, using clothing as a space where these tensions, transitions, and hybrid identities can be visually materialized.
Pașcalău Claudiu-Raul，目前為視覺藝術博士生，他以時尚設計作為研究媒介，探討自然與數位在當代文化中不可分割的關係。他的創作實踐聚焦於塑造現代生活的心理與社會概念，並以服裝作為視覺化張力、轉換與混合身份的載體，使抽象議題得以具象呈現。
／Description and concept of the artwork
作品描述與概念／
Hustle Culture perpetuates the belief that once financial comfort is secured, stability in all other areas of life will naturally follow—a mentality reinforced by social media and embedded in modern society’s subconscious. While it can motivate individuals to pursue professional goals and external validation, this movement carries significant emotional and psychological risks, reducing self-worth to productivity. The genderless design project MANMADE CLAWS metaphorically aligns Hustle Culture with carnivorous plants to illustrate the harmful effects of constant work. Merging natural and digital elements, the project features aggressive organic cut lines shaping oversized silhouettes and a palette dominated by black and gray, contrasted with accents of blue and fluorescent magenta, lime, and green. Technical textures generate matte/glossy and smooth/textured contrasts, forming organic volumes through pattern cuts, gathering, excessive padding, vegetal motifs, micro-pleats, and layered unfinished surfaces.
「Hustle Culture」（過度工作文化）延續著一種信念：只要獲得經濟上的舒適與富足，生活中的其他穩定便會自然而然跟隨而來——這種思維不僅被社群媒體強化，更深植於當代社會的潛意識中。儘管這種文化能驅使人們追求職涯成就與外在肯定，但其背後也伴隨巨大的情緒與心理風險，使個體將自我價值簡化為生產力的衡量。
無性別服裝設計企劃《MANMADE CLAWS》以食肉植物為隱喻，揭示 Hustle Culture 下持續勞動所帶來的吞噬性危害。作品融合自然與數位語彙，以富侵略性的有機剪裁構築寬大輪廓；整體色調以黑與灰為主，並加入藍、螢光洋紅、萊姆綠等鮮明色塊作為衝突亮點。材質紋理在霧面／亮面、光滑／粗糙間製造層次，透過版型切割、抽摺、過度填充、植物形態、微褶與多層未完成表面，形成如生長般的立體量體。
作品以視覺語言呈現精神耗損與結構壓力，重現當代人在效率至上與自我迷失間被緩慢吞噬的過程。
