Project

Re-sclupting the Inner Self

2024 · New York

Fashion / Sculpture / Performance art / Kinetic installation / Anti-fashion

A project about reclaiming sincerity from the spectacle of fashion — letting what fashion excludes, fragments, and silences appear directly in front of the viewer.

Statement

Fashion belongs to everyone, but not everyone is entitled to have fashion. The scope of fashion has gradually changed from clothing and accessories to a concept through which people express their desires. From material to spiritual transformation. Fashion dreams big, claiming it can create equality, protect the environment, and change the world. Yet, the reality is that many people's lives are completely outside of the so-called fashion. Returning to my hometown, a city that is not so international, I don’t see the fashion I learned about in New York, the desire for beauty, the prosperity brought by luxury, nor how fashion changes people’s lives. This collection views fashion from the perspective of those forgotten by fashion, to let those who are silent be seen by the world. Breaking through the glamorous facade, allowing more truth to emerge from the fabric.

I am afraid of this insincere world, so I try to understand the entire world through thinking. I crush myself into pieces and stick it in every corner, repeatedly doing so allows me to magnify myself, to accommodate the whole world. However, it is in this process that the excessive fragmentation of myself has led me to lose all my subjectivity. The more I know, the more I realize I don’t know. The more I know, the more I realize how much I don’t know. This also terrifies me. I just want to be the most sincere self, but sincerity is the greatest enemy of society.

This collection has thus evolved into the process of me reclaiming myself. Sincerity, directness, and focus have become the key words of the collection. When I listen to music, I need to specifically sit down and listen, to hear every note, every lyric. My attitude towards my own designs is the same; I hope that when people look at my designs, they are just looking at my designs. I don’t want my clothes to cater to any social occasion or social purpose, hence the following designs.