The concept of this collection came from my primary observation in Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Nanjing. China has undergone rapid urbanisation in the past decades, but there are also dystopian sides about it. I focused on the dystopian elements through my observation of Chinese ‘villages in cities’ and the crowded underground, to reveal the difficult lives of young working Chinese people in metropolitan cities.
I wanted to explore escapism from modern, crowded life through clothing by reinterpreting tailoring through deconstruction experiments simulating the ‘compression’ concept. The experimental structures and tailoring were combined to inspire draping and pattern cutting in this collection. The jewelries used in final photoshoot were created by Lynn Zhang.
