Singapore Stories 2021

I am thrilled to have been nominated for Singapore Stories 2021, a designer competition with the themes of heritage, sustainability and technology, held by the Textile and Fashion Federation.

Inspired by a series of Tang Dynasty pottery artefacts encrusted with corals at the Asian Civilizations Museum, my collection "Deep Sea Diving" conjures the image of a diver discovering live and dead corals. To capture this juxtaposition of life and death, I digitally rendered my sketching of corals into two unique prints - the Corals Print and the Fossils Print. Inspired by the streamlined silhouette of a diver's wetsuit, the collection featured gently contoured cheongsams and two-piece sets that combined draping and tailored lines. A dark color palette with a luminous glow of gold, silver, electric blue and red.

The materials and designs were cut for circularity and minimum waste. By focusing on versatility, I needed just 5 fabrics (Corals Print on a cotton-tencel, Fossils Print on a cotton-silk, recycled polyester-rayon gabardine twill, silver-blue grenadine, and black silk). The fabric remnants of the collection were then re-purposed into the Patchwork Jacket and the Kimono Jacket.