Making of Hajime Sorayama's giant robot for Dior revealed in exclusive video
This video, exclusive to Dezeen, reveals how Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama created the giant female robot that took centre stage at Dior's Pre-Fall 2019 menswear show in Tokyo.
Kim Jones, artistic director of Dior menswear, commissioned Sorayama to create the giant, retro-futurist robot. It took the form of an "idealised woman", with details embossed to resemble mechanical joints, nuts and bolts across its body.
As shown in the movie, the figure was carved from a block of styrofoam and then coated in multiple layers of aluminium paint, which took 20 days to apply.
The robot featured in Dior's Pre-Fall 2019 menswear show in TokyoSorayama is famous for designing the original Sony AIBO robot dog, which was rereleased by the Japanese tech giant last year. The artist explains in the film that the project marks 40 years since he first started drawing designs for robots.
"I've never created a statue this big before," he says. "I got excited by the idea of doing something new."
Sorayama based the design on the characters from his 1983 book Sexy Robot. The book is filled with illustrations featuring hyperrealistic "fembots" – a term used to described robots with a human female-like form.
The figure was carved from styrofoam and coated in aluminium paintSorayama's robot weighs just under a tonne, so took 16 people to assemble.
Its head resembles a helmet with a single illuminated r...
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