Creative Counts, Volume 9
Taskin Goec
For the ninth volume of Creative Counts, we caught up with Berlin-based mixed-reality designer Taskin Goec, who’s turning digital fashion into a sensorial experience.Blending heritage craftsmanship with cutting-edge tech like custom-trained AI, Goec sculpts virtual pieces that feel anything but cold. A London College of Fashion grad and SYKY collective member, his work has lit up London Fashion Week and featured in collabs with SHOWstudio, The Fabricant, and Vogue+. With one foot in Chanel’s Métiers d’Art and the other in the metaverse, Goec is stitching together the future—where digital and human meet in style.
Interview by Milk | with Taskin Goec
The Packet
Across the worlds of art, entertainment, fashion, business, and technology, we’ve seen firsthand the power that creative thinking has to define the future. Throughout our work with industry leaders, we’ve noticed three key themes that have formed the basis of our approach to every partnership—culture, curation, and collaboration. In this series, we explore these three themes by asking the people we admire most to complete a set of playful, creative exercises.
Swipe/click through Taskin's Creative Counts packet below!
The Wrap
After Taskin sent us his Creative Counts packet, we had some follow-up questions for him about what he wrote:
Milk Team
What about the exercise did you enjoy?
Taskin Goec
I think the beauty of this exercise is that it shows the interaction between a creator and the world at a very specific point in time! I tried to be very spontaneous and intuitive which is probably also quite revealing.
Milk Team
Can you explain why you think less competition can lead to a more creative community?
Taskin Goec
I believe that precarious working conditions force artists to oversimplify and to focus on branding. Less competition would help us to shift from individual to collective dreams; from self-expression to political, ecological and collective ambitions. Creativity is the result of so many different driving forces. Competition is only one of them and it’s not the most inspiring on top of that.
Milk Team
What about wrestling and martial arts inspires you?
Taskin Goec
Wrestling is considered to be raw and tough, masculine maybe. But I find it so opulent and it reminds me of drag culture, in a way. I find it important to understand how masculine aesthetics are no less artificial than hyper-femininity. What inspires me with this is the idea of cultivated rawness. The words “artificial” and “natural” don’t mean anything to me and I try to overcome these concepts in my work, too.
Milk Team
Can you define “gremlincore”?
Taskin Goec
Gremlincore is an aesthetic that celebrates qualities that are generally considered undesirable, such as dirt, irregularity, rough textures and muddy colors. It is probably one of many buzzy online aesthetics but it plays an important role in my digital renders. Virtual fashion is often associated with perfectly smooth textures, chrome effects and all that. My approach is really to push the opposite: chaotic embellishments, tarnished metals, patinated leathers - these are very gremlincore elements to me.
Milk Team
Anything else you’d like to share?
Taskin Goec
I am very excited to announce an upcoming mixed reality project. I have been working on hybrid clothing for a while now and this fashion film is blurring the lines between analog and digital reality - think physical clothes with a virtual aura! We will launch it at the end of March.
Milk Team
Thank you!
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