Original - "STEREO-TYPE" MusiCouture Fashion Show + Lookbook Shoot

Stereo-type  Collection

Gallatin School of Individualized Studies is one of the schools in New York University. It's a great school for people who has a lot of different interest and have no idea how to channel it into a traditional major. Another cool thing about Gallatin is that it holds an annual runway show ever since 2009. The first year starts with a eco-friendly themed show, and 2010 was a gender-awared theme. This year, the theme is "music". The show is to explore how music and fashion are interconnected. The name of the show is MusiCouture.

The name of my collection si named Stereo_type. 

Music and Fashion are connected in many ways in my opinion. Whenever I am designing something I always turn on the specific tone of music and start sketching. For this collection, Stereo_type, it is about combining the two cultural identity I have. I was raised in Taiwan until seventh grade and studied in boarding school for five years. The eastern and western culture inside me clashes a lot of the time and I had an era of identity crisis. However, I understand that sometimes it is the multiple identities and cultures that make one so beautiful. This collection combines my eastern heritage and the western culture, exhibiting the different side and colors of music in a fashionable manner. Each look is inspired by a specific type of music from one of the two cultures. There are the eastern traditional music and pop music, there are also the western classical, neoclassical, and pop music. The elements of the looks may be stereotypical, but the looks in general is innovative and modern, turning something that is old into new.

Me introducing my collection during the Runway Show

Original - Cubism Font

WRZ Original is a category where I create my own stuff and showcase it here!

Typography is an art form that is very important to this era. With many advertisements and promotional materials, the right font can convey the right message to attract attention. 

Typography has always been a big part of the arts I've created.

This time, I decided to mix it up and instead of creating font that compliments the art, why not create fonts that ARE art?

This font is called "cubism". It is exactly like it sounds. Cubism art in its font form. This is my homage to Picasso and the Cubism Movement. I don't have a download source yet since I haven't turn it into the right document form yet, but I can always do that later. 

So what do you think? Do you like it? Please leave comments below!!

Original - Aurora Inspired Mini-Collection

The complete Aurora Collection

Aurora has always been a phenomenon that amazes me. When I was doing a project in the Pre-college program of Rhode Island School of Design (Aka RISD), I decided to look up some photos of auroras to see if it can inspire me. It did. The way the light shines and curves that create such a beautiful and mystical light. So I decided to create a mini-collection that is inspired by these lights. 

All of the dresses have black as their base color to resemble the dark knight, than the different color chiffon interlace and curves with each other that resembles the lights in the sky. I also play with the sheerness of the fabric and sometimes single layer or double layer to show the different opacity an aurora has. 

I never got the chance to make it until November 2012, when Embodied Magazine graciously accept my designs and set up a fashion shoot for the magazine. Embodied Magazine is a Gallatin based fashion magazine that is just starting up. It hopes to reach the same quality as other fashion magazines, but advocate healthy body image and self love. 

So here are the final product of the photoshoot!!!

Fashion Sketches of the Aurora Collection 

Look 1

Look 2

Look 3

Look 4

Photographer: Alexis Bynum, Make-Up: Caroline Norton, Hair: Alex Chernow