About Me
Hi! I'm a fashion graduate from Arts University Bournemouth
A Chinese designer who specialises in womenswear, Chinese fashion, historical and modern pattern cutting, tailoring, and digital fashion. I'm from Hong Kong and came to England to learn fashion design. While here I researched into modern and traditional Chinese pattern cutting and combined it with western pattern cutting, resulting with my collection.
I took for granted the comfortability and security of living in Hong Kong. Moving to England for my education has been a large culture shock that makes me miss my family immensely. I feel like an outsider, a foreigner. I don’t understand the slang, references, or culture. I express my homesickness through my collection to reconnect with my heritage and brought in English influences to show what I learned from my time here. My collection is my journey as an artist and designer. I want to celebrate my collection in a way that everyone can enjoy and appreciate and learn my story.
INSPIRATION
Thanks to my Family
I owe my collection to my family; I couldn’t have made my collection without their support, I’ve always had them in my mind when designing and making my collection. Thus I made a Chinese collection as a tribute to my family and heritage. I did this for me and for others like me in England, to represent our struggle and feel seen, and I did this for my people and family back home to show that I haven’t forgotten them, and I never stopped thinking about them.
Wanting to make them proud, I designed a Chinese collection to showcase the accumulation of everything my family taught me, and the new things I’ve learned here. My collection highlights Chinese pattern cutting, prints, and silhouettes mixed with western pattern cutting to create something familiar and new for both Chinese and western audiences. Everything that has led me to a collection I’m proud of has been from the support of my family, so I made this collection as a thanks to my family.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Concept
Colour Board
Historical and Cultural Research
Print and button design
Design Development
Toiling of Look 1
Toiling of Look 2
Toiling of Look 3
Toiling of Look 4
Look 1
Look 2
Look 3
Look 4
Range Plan
Final Lineup
DETAIL
The focus of my collection is the intricate pattern cutting and tailoring inspired by the cheongsam.
The main feature of a cheongsam is the asymmetric neckline that goes across the bust into the side seam. I’ve taken that feature and made the neckline cut into the sleeve, which is rather simplistic but by combining the yolk made with the sleeve head, I’ve eliminated shoulder seams and armhole seams and replaced with one armhole dart. This has been a reoccurring feature in all of my outfits, without an armhole seam at the front it creates a smooth surface at the shoulder and curves around the arm forcing the eye to follow the line of movement giving it an elegant effect. Another detail in my collection is tailoring; Combined with no armhole seam, tailoring has been a great challenge. I’ve done a lot of unique darts, pivoting darts, and turning darts into pleats. All of the details and features in my collection aren’t without reason or research, all the choices I’ve made are informed by either Chinese culture or western influences.
“Love you, I always support you and stand by your side.” – My dad
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