There are five research directions that I’m interested in diving in:

1.Romantic vintage clothing with delicate fabrics.

One of my biggest habits from my childhood is taking adventure in my mother’s closet, she carefully preserved a positive amount of clothing from her era (mainly 80s and 90s) and delicate garments which are from even earlier period. I used to touch these well-made fabrics and clothing structures and smell the mysterious scent from these vintage clothes. Long skirts have always been my favorite items, not only because I’m not confident with the shape of my lower body part but also the quality it shows: Conservative, feminine and dynamic at the same time, I also appreciate the fluidity skirts bring, especially within layers of fabrics.

2. Animals and fur

Personally I’m a big fan of cute animals, I always feel mentally cured when I interact with small animals like rabbits, birds and cats and I’m obsessed with their appearance and their humanlike yet pure personalities. Sometimes people like to describe a person with certain kind of animals, probably the described one obtain some similar characteristics, this is very interesting to me because

3.Futurism

I always have a lot of fantasy toward the future and I believe that garments have the ability to show the sense of future through different materials.

4.Optical illusion and extreme color

I’m easily getting tired of vivid colors so normally I don’t purchase any colorful items. I believe if I want to build up a sophisticated closet system, I have to abandon a lot of choices and stick with my own aesthetics. In terms of my daily outfit, I don’t wear anything that exposes my body shapes and I’m insisted with black and white color. However, due to the monotonous characteristics these two colors bring, manipulations seemed to be much more charming on them, when it comes to overlapping or combing these two colors followed by certain sequence, it is easy to capture the audience’s attention.

5. Movies, fantasy and dreams

In my spare time, I love watching movies and my favorite director is Kon Satoshi. All of Kon’s works present an in-between ideas: Justice and Evil, Love and Hate, Reality and Dreams. Kon’s films are well known to bend the mind’s of his characters to the point of break, often balancing between the realm of reality and dream/illusion in his storytelling. His works are psychological focused, a lot of them are horror based, and all of them are brilliant in their own way. I’m also eager to creative a collection which is able to transfer this sort of idea –  “On the edge of dreams”. It’s absolutely challenging for me to demonstrate this abstract idea and my thoughts through the media of garments but hopefully I would find my way on my future research path. In my collection, I aim to present the feeling of dreams – By utilizing specific colors and materials.

All of these fives themes are based on my personal interest, aesthetics and hobbits therefore I have a lot of passion to do more research about them.