Our Origin
Inspired by fertility, this collection expresses the origin of life. Images of menstruation, the vulva, the womb and ovaries -that women should be proud of but that are hidden away socially as they are concealed physically -are used as the basis of print,pattern and embellishment in a collection which aims to express the beauty and honor of the female ability to create new life. Phoenix Yang, 2016.
Flesh
We human beings are all made from flesh, covered, and protected by flesh. As garments are like the second skin, body and garments relay on each other and construct each other.
Blood
Under the meaning of blood, in this collection, red sympolizes the power, strength, and flow of lives. Blood is the support of lives, and the way to communicate between mothers and babies in the womb.
This collection started from lots of expirements. I tried to represent the image of fertility by the vaginas, wombs, and menstruation. These are the fabric manipulations to represent the shape of vaginas.
I applied the technique of prints for textile design to represent the image of flesh. These patterns are inspired by tissues and cells of ovary under microscope view.
In order to represent blood, and to reach the couture level, beading and embroidery are applied in this collection. I chose red transparent beads in different sizes as the main materials, and hand-stitch them together in the pattern of ovaries, and the flow of blood.
Lacer cutting is a quick and clean way to do the finishing of fabric, and to create 2D and 3D patterns on surfaces of both artifical and natural fabrics. These patterns represent the shape of vuluas, wombs, and ovary cells. Some organic shapes can be viewed as vuluas and ovaries in the same time.
Screen prints techniques, such as flock, dye and devore, work very well to represent this ovary-tissue-inspired pattern. They create the image and texture of flesh and blood, and also cause the differences in the transparency of fabrics. When light goes through fabrics, it cauese the images of flesh, and the burning fire.
Hand-stitched bias inside CF
Irregular high-waist line with laser cutting finishing
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CF
Hand-stitched Qipao skirt finishing
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Off-shoulder neckline with bias finishing inside
Tiny flounces vagina shape fabric manipualtions
Beading along the edges of the laser cutting skirt
One side off-shoulder CF
Open sleeve
3D Fabric manipulation in womb shape
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Laser cutting pattern and finishing along neckline and shoulder
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SF
Beading along V-neck and waist line
Seamless side
Necklace
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