Studio

CURRENT PROJECTS

The studio is a living space of research, reflection, and design.
Here, I develop projects that explore fashion as a cultural act—where garments become language, memory, and site.
Each project unfolds at its own pace, shaped by collaboration, critical thinking, and material sensitivity.
This is not a catalogue—it’s a conversation in progress.

Garment as Philosophy

A practice-led inquiry into the cultural and intellectual life of clothing.

Garment as Philosophy creates space to reflect, recalibrate, and reimagine clothing as a cultural act—an expression of identity, memory, and belonging, shaped by lived experience and historical context. It explores how garments carry thought—how form, material, and gesture can become tools for storytelling, critique, and care.

Rooted in fashion practice, material thinking, and cultural inquiry, the project invites participants to think through dress—beyond trend or technique—toward slower, deeper ways of knowing.

Through visual talks, workshops, conversation, observation, and making, it becomes a space for inquiry that is felt through the body, not just written on the page.

It is open to designers at all stages, educators, researchers, artists, and cultural practitioners—or anyone drawn to fashion as a site of reflection, meaning, and connection.

→Elements of the project are already being explored through ongoing practice, with further iterations in development.

Beautiful Strangeness

A visual and conceptual dispatch project tracing the layered histories of textiles, dress, and cross-cultural exchange.

Unfolding through images, studies, notes, and quiet observation, this work seeks out the lesser-seen: the folk, the overlooked, the partially forgotten. It follows threads of identity and migration through fibre, form, and technique—decentering dominant narratives of dress by focusing on textile traditions across Asia and other underrepresented regions.

This is not a new direction, but a clearer lens. The foundations of Beautiful Strangeness have long existed within my design-led work—visible in past collections, research journeys, and visual studies. What was once intuitive now returns with more defined focus, evolving into an inquiry that bridges cultural research, material memory, and personal practice.

From artisanal processes to everyday garments, Beautiful Strangeness explores how textiles carry memory, movement, and cultural negotiation. Rooted in research but grounded in lived experience, it bridges fashion and anthropology, design and archaeology—asking how what we wear, make, and preserve reveals who we are, then and now.

These dispatches are not updates, but considered gestures—offered in response to what feels timely, relevant, and quietly necessary.
→ Subscribe to forthcoming Beautiful Strangeness Dispatches.

Soft Power / Quiet Resistance

A research-led exploration of fashion as cultural strategy and subtle defiance.
This project investigates how clothing can communicate beyond surface—through disruption, restraint, and the deliberate undoing of expectations.

It engages with fashion as a critical tool: not for spectacle, but for questioning systems, challenging norms, and offering new ways of seeing.

For those drawn to new design logics—ones that reframe rather than resist, and remake space for quiet beauty, care, and criticality.
→ This project is already being shared in small-group educational settings.
Future formats are evolving—if it resonates with your own practice or teaching, I’d be happy to hear from you.

Material Practice

Quiet studies, slow gestures, and the ongoing work of making

Alongside my collaborative and pedagogical work, I continue a slow, personal practice of making—intuitive, reflective, and embodied. These pieces may take the form of garments, textile studies, sketches, moving image or sound. They are part of how I stay connected to material, to memory, and to the rhythm of working with my hands.

This practice is not about outcomes. It’s about staying close to process. It’s how I listen—and how I return to the core of why I began.

Making keeps me grounded.
It allows me to think, feel, and reconnect—outside structure, outside speed.

STUDIO VALUES

Each project begins with care—for materials, for people, and for the stories woven into garments.
Read more about my design ethics →

LET’S WORK TOGETHER

I welcome collaborations, teaching invitations, and commissions aligned with these inquiries.
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