Concept |
This collection explores diverse standards of beauty. Everyone has a different standard. Who established this specific beauty standard? Why should only one kind of human body shape be accepted? Humans come in many different shapes and sizes, with an array of deformities, just like fruits and vegetables. This collection can be seen as mixing different fruits and vegetables with the body. To create the garments’ shapes, cotton fills out the nude-color knitted fabric, and colorful satin represents different fruits on the body. The nude knit fabric is cut in a deformed body shape, then sewn together to create a third leg and a tiny hand. Nude knit fabric tightly wraps around the garment, with many holes cut into it. This creates the feeling of fruits mixing with the human body, with the outer shell of fabric conveying a sense of pulling and escaping. The second and third look are one-piece garments, expressing the feeling of twins sharing bodies, in the shape of deformed carrots. Some people are different physically, others emotionally, like people with dyslexia; but their emotions are beautiful. Many artists are dyslexic. Like deformed fruits and vegetables, they are not ugly, but very special.
Bio |
After studying fashion design in Shanghai, Tokyo and Chicago for the past five years, Meilun gained the skills needed to construct garments. She came to the Post-Bacc program to learn more about integrating concepts and abstract elements to a collection. She speaks and writes fluently in Chinese, Japanese and English.