About Me
Dare to be different.
Thy Nga (Nora) Nguyen is a Fashion Designer graduate from Leeds Arts University. Nora specialises in both Womenswear and Menswear, focusing in asymmetric tailoring, creative construction with unique details.
Throughout the course, I've learnt variety of skills that are useful for the fashion industry as creative pattern cutting and bringing 2D sketches to real garments. As a designer, I have always desired to create the bold and unique to my designs, something modern but extraordinary that can make a huge impression.
INSPIRATION
"Plainness, Crudity, and Transparency".
"Illusory void" is a collection that explores the surreal feeling of the Brutalist architecture movement. Illusory means not real, or deceptive; void means emptiness. Aiming to express these through the designs, a wide range of materials with different textures are being used which create a unique combination between the softness and the roughness like the feeling of touching a cold and rough concrete. The keywords of this collection are " fluidity" and "solidity".
Desire to express and bring the sculptural elements from architectural spaces to the fashion world, "Illusory Void" echo the lines, texture and volume seen in the many Brutalist building, by carefully layering with asymmetrical forms to create an unfinished and imbalanced look. The cut-out element in this collection is also influenced by the "Void".
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
Mood Board - Illusory Void
Colour, Fabric board - Illusory Void
Design Development -Illusory Void
Design Development -Illusory Void
Design Development -Illusory Void
Design Development -Illusory Void
Accessories Development
Range plan - CAD - Illusory Void
Range plan - CAD - Illusory Void
Range plan - CAD- Illusory Void
Final Line Up -Illusory Void
Inpiration, colour, fabric board - Cloth Surgeon
Design development - Cloth Surgeon
Final chosen outfit, CAD - Cloth Surgeon
Mood board, Final line up - Burberry
Design development - Burberry
Design development - Creative Pattern Cut
Design Development - Creative Pattern Cut
DETAIL
Fluidity & Solidity
Sculptural shapes and using creative de-construct following with asymmetric in the silhouette by using unique techniques and carefully selected high-quality material. Silhouettes are found through working directly onto the body, draping, pinning and sculpting.
"A landscape where the rigidity of structures meets the randomness of organic growth and human appropriation and mark-making." - Virgil Abloh, Efflorescence at Galerie kreo
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