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 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 and memory, 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 you to think through dress—beyond trend or technique—towards deeper ways of knowing.

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

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.

For those drawn to new design logics—ones that make space for beauty, care, and criticality.

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 in small group educational settings and through ongoing practice.

Material Practice

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

Alongside my collaborative and pedagogical work, I continue a 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 and to the rhythm of working through the body.

→ See most recent project - Soul of Things (Mono no Tamashi)

Beautiful Strangeness

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 object studies.

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

→Beautiful Strangeness notes on Instagram

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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