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Adrian Aviles

Rhode Island School of Design

Adrian Aviles is a designer and creative technologist whose work blends speculative fashion with real-world material innovation. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Adrian draws from his background in apparel design and biomedical engineering to reimagine how garments can hold memory, identity, and emotion. Working under the name Avidron, his thesis collection Chorus of Circuits explored a future where clothing becomes a second skin for survival—built from remnants of the analog world and shaped by grief, code, and transformation. He’s collaborated with NASA on advanced spacesuit prototypes and worked with independent brands like Made By Mena to translate concepts into wearable systems. Across projects, Adrian combines hands-on making with tools like CLO 3D and Blender to develop silhouettes that feel both human and machine. Deeply rooted in Latinx culture, his work also reflects a desire to rewrite its narratives—fusing tradition, subculture, and digital craft into something entirely new.

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Chorus of Circuits

Category: Apparel

Competitions: International

Chorus of Circuits is a speculative thesis collection by Adrian Aviles, created under the moniker Avidron, that imagines a future where memory is encoded in hardware and identity is reconstructed from the remnants of analog systems. Drawing on cybernetic decay, Latinx diasporic memory, and garment engineering, the collection fuses digital symbolism with physical transformation. Titled Skin Circuitry, this sculptural ensemble is crafted from wet-molded cowhide leather, formed directly over discarded circuit boards. This technique fossilizes outdated electronics into the surface of the garment, creating an exoskeleton that is both protective and intimate. The jacket and trousers are built through geometric paneling that distorts and redefines the body’s natural anatomy—offering a new, post-human silhouette shaped by technological residue. Skin Circuitry embodies the collection’s central question: how does the body carry grief, history, and code in a world where machines outlive memory? By transforming obsolete materials into tactile armor, the piece channels the notion of clothing as interface—an emotional and physical threshold between flesh and circuitry. The embedded reliefs act as ghost prints of a forgotten network, while the rich tannin-dyed leather recalls the vulnerability of skin. Through Chorus of Circuits, Aviles presents garments as tools for adaptation and survival. In Skin Circuitry, the wearer becomes a conduit—shielded not by fashion as ornament, but by fashion as living archive.

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