portfolio
CONTENT 01| resume
08| trang khieu collection
02| pop03
09| draped
03| nha san collective
10| sisters
04| morris
11| airasia collection
05| textile manipulation
12| rĂŞvasseur
06| fish
13| @onepatternperday
07| faculty
14| technical drawings
- To select independent fashion brands in Vietnam region and sit in direct meetings with the designers to pitch them to join our programs. - Successfully contacted and presented our platform directly to four designers in one week. Built connection with the designers and gained industry knowledges
fashion merchandising intern singapore june 2015
- To take care of the artworks and event’s facilities. To assist guests at assigned areas. - To perform team-work according to shifts, to take charge of the maintenance.
SINGAPLURAL
LANGUAGE
INTERMEDIATE
ADVANCED
Skills Adobe Photoshop, Illustrating, Technical Drawing.
Vietnamese – 1st Language English – 2nd Language
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Sewing & Drafting, Accessories Making, Styling, Photography, Writing, Microsoft Office, Presentation.
crew member hanoi, vietnam december 2014 - january 2015
NHA SAN COLLECTIVE
singaplural ambassador singapore march 2015
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- To prepare the space and artwork for each shows. - To take part in organizing and designing graphics, social media ads for events. - Designed merchandises to bring a commercial aspect to the artistic spirit of the collective.
- To welcome and assist guests inside and outside the shows. - To prepare seats, runway, goodie bags before and after each shows. - Developed good customer service skill and logistic duty.
crew member singapore may 2015
SINGAPORE FASHION WEEK
RUNWAY-CODE.COM
FREELANCE
- To take on design projects directly from clients. Worked individually. - To liaise with clients on ideas and changes while maintaining a good relationship. - Developed good skills in graphic design, dealing with different briefs and different timelines.
- To assist designer on a daily basis. - To be involved in the design process for different projects: from generating design ideas to creating patterns, designing digital prints and making the final sample garments. - To source and order materials, liaise with suppliers and manufacturers, practiced customer relation. - To create technical flats and line sheets.
2014 2015 2016
A Fashion Graduate with the eagerness to learn and the ability to work under high pressure, both independently and as a team player. With experiences in multiple areas of arts and design, I have acquired a strong skill set for the industry and a great curiosity for new ideas.
Profile
(+65) 83034048 silvu.0908@gmail.com www.sil-vu.com
graphic designer hanoi, vietnam june 2014 - present
designer assistant intern singapore august 2016 - present
RÊVASSEUR
Experiences
2013-2016
Minor in Micro Business Minor in Fashion Styling Minor in Fashion Publishing
Lasalle College of The Arts
. FASHION DESIGN MAJOR
DIPLOMA IN FASHION
Education
Sil Vu Minh Duc Fashion Graduate Singapore / Vietnam 04.09.1995
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POP03
accessories design / micro business development
POP03 is the third edition of the annual fashion incubator playground for LASALLE’s fashion students. The pop-up store showcases products of students from the Micro Bussiness module. In this project, I choose to experiment on accesorries design. Inspired from the quirky vintage pictures of Coney Island holiday, I designed neck pieces from upcycled wood, plastic and metallic leather. From there developed a range plan and hand-crafted eight pieces to sell in stores. All items were sold out in less than two hours.
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Nha San Collective collage / tote bag design
A mini project I did for Nha San Collective - an art collective in Hanoi, Vietnam. My job is to come up with a few artworks that are suitable for merchandise and to be sold in Nha San’s artshop. This series of four paper collages aims to bring a commercial side to Nha San’s spirit and to attract younger audiences to the collective.
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nha san collective
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morris fashion design
This mini collection was an exploration on folding, tucking and pleating technique. I was inspired by the felt series by Robert Morris. The final garment was made out of felt and lined with crepe of contrasting color. Different looks can be achieved by buttoning/unbutonning the fold on the top.
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morris
doubled armhole attached by top stich
button for adjustable folds
innerside folded out, double sided by lining fabric
tucked pleat details
4cm 1cm rolled hem
morris - technical drawings
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textile manipulation textile design / fashion design
"Oh even these mountain will die So baby sacrifice your gold to the fire..." The main focus of this project is to experiment with textile design and in the end come up with four sample textile pieces that can work coherently in a collection. Being interested in the idea of finding beauty in the damaged: how time can ruin as well as redefine beauty value; I experiment with classical religious paintings, classic suiting plaid fabric to portray the idea: to damage the iconic elements of art and design in order to prove its value After weeks of exploration, the final outcomes features different techniques: printing, embroidery, fusing, layering, felting, painting, heat-press, drawn-thread,...
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textile manipulation
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fish
prints design / fashion design
Exploration with digital prints was the main focus point of this project. I am to create a mini collection of seven dresses with original prints. The inspiration for this project came from the reoccuring goldfish motif in Tohakumaru’s drawing. By manipulating photos of paint pallettes and real goldfishes, I created a surreal aquarium with red drawing lines like floating threads underwater. The design is later printed on duchess satin and yoru chiffon and made into a dress.
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1cm strap
BUSTIER: double layered
bustier harringbone stiched to back piece
INNERSKIRT: 57cm, finishing: overlock OUTERSKIRT: 61cm, finishing: rolled hem
fish - technical drawings
concealed zipper 23’’
2cm topstich
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faculty
fashion design / menswear
faculty
This is a project given by FACULTY - a Singaporean high end menswear brand whose main focus is on quality and denim products. Given the materials to work with, as a team of design and media students we introduced a capsule collection based on the idea of gender neutral, understated luxury and the flexibility between work and play. Staying true to the brand’s identity, we focus a lot on quality of the product by using luxury material for lining, adding nonchalant details, using special Japanese tie-dye techniques and pefecting the fit.
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INDIGO KIMONO COAT WITH SILK LINING
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TIE-DYE RAGLAN SLEEVES TOP
INDIGO BLUE CROPPED TROUSERS
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Trang Khieu Collection illustration/ t-shirt design
This is a collaborative project with Trang Khieu a Vietnamese model for her own fashion label. The illustrations was loosely based on the Asian tales of Koi fish swimming up the waterfall and turning into dragon. Through this project we want to give out a patriotic message from a personal perspective as a Vietnamese while the country going through changes and development. A lot of elements in the illustration was taken from traditional Vietnamese decor and painting, mixed with a modern colour palette; resulting in product that are suitable for the youth market.
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Trang Khieu Collection
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Trang Khieu Collection
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Trang Khieu Collection
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drape fashion design
Drape is the first project I explored the draping technique to design a garment. In this project I am interested in recreating the classical femininity, the nostalgic image of a beautiful woman. The fabric choice also played important part in creating the aesthetic. But more than any idea behind, I wanted to create dress that compliment the body shape of a woman and flows nicely with her movement - a dress that feels good and looks good.
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drape
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half lined until waistline
concealed zipper
rolled hem
drape - technical drawings
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sistrrs
prints design / fashion design / collection development
SISTRRS is the graduate capsule collection for my diploma years. This project revolves around the idea of subversive femininity. Femininity in this society has long been stereotyped as the weaker trait. Pop culture and the media has taught girls to disdain their own femininity and sexuality, saying that if you wanna be powerful, you must be like a man. In this collection, I want to challenge all that existing norms by taking what women are made fun of and make it proud and loud. I want to give femininity its power and let my women wear it unapologetically. I want to blow up femininity so big in sizes, colors and attitude that people gonna have to question their definition of the term. Taking main inspiration from 90s chick-flicks, Lolita, Barbie, the feminist movements of Guerrilla Girls and Riot Grrls, I reworked classic feminine elements like the slip dress, lingerie, plastic pink, pageant sash, bow tie into something with subversive meanings. The collection was named “SISTRRS� as a homage to Riot Grrls, and at the same time convey the idea of sisterhood - that no matter how different a girl is to another girl, they understand each other's struggle and the position they are being placed in this patriarchal world. sistrrs - context
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sistrrs - inspiration
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sistrrs - moodboard
sistrrs - collection lineup
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sistrrs - technical flats
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sistrrs - final garments
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sistrrs - final garments
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see the rest of the photos at: cargocollective.com/silvu/SISTRRS sistrrs - final garments
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AirAsia Collection 2017
AARRDS 2017 Submission
This collection is my submission for the AirAsia Runway Ready Designer Search Copetition 2017 ( AARRDS 2017). AARRDS is a fashion design competition by AirAsia in partnership with Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week. The competition is held in 10 ASEAN countries to provide a platform for young designers in the region to showcase their talents. The submitted collection must be inspired by an ASEAN destination, the ideas will first be presented in a live audition then each country will have its selected finalists to make the collection and present in Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week.
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Pearl of the Far East Saigon, Vietnam, in the 1890s, was named The Pearl of the Far East by the French. Fast forward more than 200 years to today, I am taking that as the starting point for this collection. I was inspired to discover the old glamour of Vietnamese women and Vietnamese city and put that into today’s context. Throughout my research, I was visually intrigued by images of women from different classes in their traditional clothes. Looking back at these old pictures, I felt a very strange unfamiliarity as if these are the memories I have never experienced. However at the same time I felt a strong identity connection to it. The collection is a visual interpretation of that discovery: a mix of past and present, of traditionality and modernity, of the unfamiliar bygone luxury and the urban jungle we are living in everyday. In here, elements of past and present are mixed. While certain garments and materials are constructed and deconstructed to portray the chaotic, brutal cityscape of Vietnam. Other garments have been rendered in soft material to create a fluid drapey silhouette. They resemble the traditional clothes, as the past ghostly layered on the strong shape of modernity. The choice of mixing in suiting fabric also suggests the image of the modern working women. Through this collection, I wish to create the image of those women, who are strong yet feminine, traditional yet modern.
AirAsia Collection 2017 - Inspiration
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RANGE PLAN COLLECTION: PEARL OF THE FAR EAST LOOK 1
LOOK 2
AirAsia Collection 2017 - Technical Drawings
LOOK 3
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@onepatternperday pattern design challenge
One Pattern Per Day (OOPD) is an ongoing daily design project I started in January 2017 on Instagram (@onepatternperday) for repeat patterns and prints design. The objective of the project is to practice, experiment and have fun on designing patterns everyday. Uptil May 2017, 100 designs have been uploaded to the instagram account and I hope to achieve the goal of having 365 designs at the end of the project. Featured here are some of my favorite designs uptil May 2017
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technical drawings
A collection of technical drawing exercises done along three years of my diploma. Some of them was done by hand and some was done on Adobe Illustrator. This collection includes both technical drawings of garments made by me and of designer’s collection.
CAPE WITH HOOD
DENIM JACKET technical drawings
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REDDINGOTE COAT
DRAPED TOP
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