Fashion is not just clothes. It is a visual presentation of our aesthetic choices, gender expressions, social statements and cultural/religious reflections etc. Dressing the body can be a decision of how we want others to perceive ourselves without any verbal contact. By wearing this visual language, we get to either express our true identity, or […]
Maison Martin Margiela – Fall 1997 Seimi Couture Dress Form Tunic The exhibition at FIT Museum showcases a series of garments that explore the relationship between fashion and our physical bodies. Throughout the time, fashion designers have been trying to change or emphasize certain parts of our bodies to build an image of […]
Reflecting on the themes of my 7-days dress practice log, I would say they are relaxed-fitting, simplicity, and black and white. Looking back on my photos, I noticed an interesting pattern that I like matching all-black clothes with white shoes. I am aware that most of my items are black, white, navy, grey or […]
Image source: Virginie Khateeb (photographer), “Meet the boys leading Margiela’s gender revolution”, Dazed Magazine, http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/26770/1/meet-the-boys-leading-margiela-s-gender-revolution There is an interesting phenomenon in fashion haute couture – it has been all about women, and to express femininity through those highly expensive, luxuriously ornated and complicatedly conctructed gowns. There are no couture shows for menswear or male models. […]
“Fashion moves in space and time. It shares in the complexity of physics and mathematics, making patterns and networks, forming mazes and constellations. Through its forms we have an opportunity to re-unite art and science and to heal the rift of the two cultures.” Fashion, as long as we tend to categorise it into […]
This video was created using founded footages. All sources are cited in the end. I gathered and edited this video based by brand advocacy theme – no gender fashion. Since my advocacy group’s solution is to use fashion power such as models, runway and celebrities to influence people’s mind towards gender and fashion, I chose […]
In this project, I carried out my brand advocacy into a booklet. Before I created this booklet, I conducted an interview on the topic of “no gender fashion”. I included the interview transcript in this booklet along with my mission statement, sectioned topics, and other relevant images and researches. I mainly used Illustrator and […]
A research on inspirational layout design for the brand advocacy booklet.
With the increasing amount of LGBTQ group and a more and more open social environment for different gender recogni0on, we see a growing trend on the runway – women wearing hyper masculine clothing (e.g. Boss Fall 2015 RTW, Balenciaga Spring 2017 RTW), and men wearing soQ, feminine designs, or even skirts (e.g. Thom […]
In this project, we were asked to choose a kind of uniform and develop a collection based on it. My choice was space suit, because I was intrigued by the complex details of the space suit, and each detail serves a certain function, also is a part of the design aesthetics in the […]
