FASHION
Take a look at the great work created by the fashion, textile, costume design and marketing students at NTIC, showcasing imagination, construction and development of designs. These works range from designs exploring culture and unusual materials to what the future of fashion and sustainability hold.
STUDENT WORK
Deva Durga
Fashion Design
LIGHT COLOUR GLASS
Light and colour have been a very core part of my life and culture. India is a land full of diversity, culture, colour, festivals and beliefs. These festivals are filled with vivid colours, fireworks and illuminated decoration. This combined with photography work I did, mainly surrounding vibrant lighting from Goose Fair and light falling through textured glass is the main is idea of my brief. Merging this with the approach of bringing different materials uncommon to fashion that reflects light, illuminates colour, creates radiating patterns and layered textures will be the soul of my project.
The aim is to create a double vision experience to the viewers; one, seen with the naked eye exploring the transparency property of glass using unusual materials and the other glowing in the dark with a psychedelic look using lights and holographic fabric. The message of the entire project is to give a sense of happiness by creating huge structured garments radiating light and captivating to the eye.
A collection derived with the concept of light, mixed with fabric unusual to fashion made through analysing the texture of glass, combined with a very flamboyant colour pallet and finally pushing a technique to its maximum extent.
Thanacha Chusakul
Fashion Design
A Thai Explanation of Floriography
As an answer to the theme of growth and decay, the studies of flower, Floriography and Thai fruit carving have become the main inspiration of this collection. It is an exploring of flower’s meaning during Victorian era and Thai wisdom about shaving fruit into flower pattern. These similar artistic inspiration of floral processes will aim to be the center of this collection with an expectation for new expressive designs in fashion. This collection will be expressing the concept of life cycle by using the language of flower about its types and meaning as the message throughout the flower silhouette and shape from Thai carving. The purpose of this theme is to combine these three inspirations together and convey the existence of flower at different times and places as a new aspect for expressive designs in fashion and create a new perspective of life through the collection.
TinLei Lau Tiffany
Fashion Design
See Heritage Through Life
Since the first day of the lesson, exploring design through nature, I started focusing on nature like leaves, tree bark and rock, I found many interesting layers, different rough and smooth textures and patterns when I zoom into those images, then started my pathway through nature.
For my first project about fashion design, I want to bring in my own culture linked into fashion with the brief growth and decay. The purpose of this project is to arouse people’s minds of heritage, always memorize how the heritage and history taught us. Also, I wanted to show how the growth of porcelain has convenient our life and eliminated by times and trends. It will be fun to explore ways to paste porcelain on fabric. Moreover, I keep exploring layers and textures these days and found out an interesting layers and rough textures on an oyster shell. Contrasting between the outside rough texture and a smooth pearl white surface inside of the shell to show how the shell protects the core heart, destroyed by ages. I will keep the original appearance of porcelain, the white surface, and blue hand-painted print and create some interesting layers and textures by using porcelain and simulate the appearance of the oyster shell to further link my brief growth and decay with nature and porcelain.
Tszling Mak Jess
Fashion Design
My project is centered around Hong Kong and Japanese culture to answer the brief of unusual materials. Growing up in Hong Kong fascinated by how fusion this place can be, I am attracted to the origin of people’s life in Hong Kong, and how it can be influenced by other cultures, especially Japanese culture. I find that they have an inspiring traditional culture that makes its fashion, architecture and products design innovative and intriguing.
In this project, I will focus on different materials and mostly patterns of both Hong Kong and Japan culture, also using folding and pleating technique as the main feature of my inspiration. More specifically the people, the streetwear, clothing, style and pf the way they live. These will influence the design direction for my project and to guide me through it will be the use of unusual materials. I hope throughout this project, I can explore the emphasis of unusual materials in illustrating people’s lifestyle.
Rui Xu Iris
Fashion Design
Fashion design is extremely flexible, and my project exploration uses the special material formation of individuality and natural style. My outfit combines Silky Satin with Poly Crepe, from sustainable and recyclable materials. I am also deeply influenced by clothing in western China. My design explores the form, shape, features, which I am particularly interested in. The pattern and texture of the national wind form a special and elegant style.
The series is inspired by the ocean and its constant movement. Water is taken from a different perspective, and the beautiful abstract drawings it creates become graphics and overlapping layers. Some photos are divided into two different levels. The fabric with different weights and transparency helps create the illusion of these movements and the glare of sunlight, as well as the cross-section of each other. One of the contours, combined with different fabrics. On the contrary, the other photos are seen and evolved as water flows down the surface, appearing to be a distorted projection of the main image.
Siqi Chen
Fashion Design
Anarchy
The title of my project is anarchy. It is talking about joker’s make up, costume, thriller, creepy, dystopian, unusual materials, subversive human behavior, human society of Joker film, punk, rock and roll, revolutionary fashion, and subculture. My starting point is film-Joker. And my brief is unusual materials, so I did some research about punk, rock and roll And revolutionary fashion, and punk, rock and roll are related to subculture, I like that style so I would like to do some research in that aspects. So I get some ideas with is jack and rivets which means I can develop idea about clothes decoration from punk, rock and roll. And my idea is to explore human society and subversive behavior that undermines it, or can undermine.
Caitlin Paige Rodriguez
Costume Design and Construction
HALCYON HOPES
For my project, I produced costume designs, set designs and prop designs for a hypothetical film titled Halcyon Hopes. I wanted to tell a story based on the American political zeitgeist and my own feelings about being an American in modern society. My film is a campy satire allegory that takes place in America sometime in the future where the earth is covered in the waste of our past, the politics are hyper-partisan, and one very poorly equipped protagonist believes they can save the world (they can’t). I took inspiration from Sci-Fi and Western films to create a unique aesthetic for my protagonist that is equal to the absurdity of the world that they live in. My final costume design outcome for my protagonist is a display of their inherent ridiculousness and longing for an abundance of opulence that they could never truly achieve because of the actions of their ancestors. Ultimately this is my critique of the American cycle of hyper-consumerism and waste that is promoted by the hyper-partisan American government.
Textile Design
Chaeyeon Kang
The Dreamlike Body
My project explores dreamlike 2D and 3D textiles pieces which were centered around the human form, body shapes and movement shapes with unusual materials. This realisation for my project started from a workshop activity ‘ 4 vogue cover shoots’.
As a textile student, I wanted to make various type of textiles pieces cause that way can make the viewers appreciate my work more enjoyable and diverse. So about my 2D textile pieces, I combined textiles with printing skill and unusual materials, for example, foam clay and candy. About my 3D textile statues, these are mostly used soft, foam clay and straw, and based on my final mark making body drawings, which I inspired on my photographs that I took from the art exhibitions, London museum and Louvre museum.
During do this process, I am highly influenced by Matty Bovan and Masha Reva that I researched and my material experiment sheets.
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Xiaowei Xia
Fashion Marketing and Branding
Sustainable Fashion
My research theme is the relationship between fashion and the environment, specifically collecting information on fashion pollution and studying the changes made by fashion brands and designers on environmental pollution.The project is finally presented in the form of a magazine. It uses a range of techniques, such as brand research, store research, social media research, questionnaire research and so on. The main directions of the survey are brand background, major customers, marketing methods and environmental protection measures .The purpose of the project is to make consumers' consumption behavior more sustainable, because I wanted to purchaser know that the fashion industry has a serious impact on global pollution and pay attention to it.The style of my layout designs can be described as minimalist style, because I do not want readers to think that my typography is confusing when they reading.For my project brief focus on reuse and reduce, I am interested in the consumption of water resources, so this is a link to my research. In the exploration, I found that some fashion retail has developed new technologies, such as dry indigo Technology, recycled cotton technology. In addition, I surveyed sustainable fashion designers and analyzed the value of clothing production to customers.
Grace Marlene Pasaribu
Fashion Marketing and Branding
Changing Consumer Behaviour Towards Sustainability
My project is called “Changing Consumer Behaviour Towards Sustainability”, a magazine derived from the main brief of sustainability and “reduce and reuse“ to observe and understand different aspects of the fashion industry and how we can continue to shift the consumers’ awareness towards more sustainable practices.
Throughout this year, I have done extensive research which has helped me gain insight and respect towards the different complex aspects of this industry. I wanted to share my research in a communicative, visual, and engaging way by designing the layout and writing the contents of this magazine while adding interactive features such as QR codes to allow easy access to more resources.
I hope this will spark curiosity and start conversations into the controversial topics that I discuss.
