Huilin Chen

History of Fashion: Topic Choices

This image is of Dovima with Elephants taken by Richard Avedon in Paris of 1955. What I found was interesting about this…

Posted on: February 12, 2017
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“What is Fashion?”

Throughout this semester, I realized that the study of fashion is an important narrative that designers must understand and discuss as a…

Posted on: December 6, 2016
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Fashion Studies LP Post #3: Dress Practice Log

Reflection Through the documentation of my everyday dress, I observed one theme that emerged throughout most of my clothing choices.…

Posted on: October 22, 2016
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Fashion Studies LP Post #2: Advertisement

In Susan Kaiser once wrote, "Advertising dehumanizes and demeans women - turning them into sexualized objects and proffering unattainable images…

Posted on: October 4, 2016
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NYFW SS17 Project

Assignment Of all the fashion trade publications, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) is often characterized as “the fashion bible” of designers,…

Posted on: September 26, 2016
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Fashion Studies LP Post: Christopher Breward’s Aphorisms

In Chris Breward’s Foreward for Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practices, he made ten aphorisms that, especially for newcomers…

Posted on: September 6, 2016
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Soft Structures: “CIRCUS”

Assignment Explore the relation between 3D and 2D by creating unique structures that incorporate techniques of clothing construction, surface treatment,…

Posted on: August 23, 2016
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Project 3: Social-Ecological Space and Materiality

Assignment Utilizing the heat fusing technique of plastic, create an inflatable iteration of a soft structure and scale it up.…

Posted on: May 17, 2016
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Bridge 5: Reflection – Archetypes and Rogues

Assignment Archetype 1: the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies :…

Posted on: May 15, 2016
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Experience and Analysis: Natural Dyeing Workshop

"What do you now see differently about the clothes you are wearing at this moment, as a result of the…

Posted on: April 27, 2016
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