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Fashion & Apparel Design

A Journey Through Unconventional Couture & Apparel Design

A Journey Through Uncon-ventional Couture & Apparel Design

Early Beginnings & Craftsmanship

Before completing high school, I began my career early, working with a family-owned business specializing in shoes and genuine leather goods. This hands-on experience shaped my understanding of craftsmanship, materials, and timeless design. Some of my early footwear designs, including shoes and boots, can be found here.

Reviving the Past: A Collage Reconstruction

This collage/montage reimagines dresses I created in the past, reconstructing them in a modern form through layered compositions with the assistance of Meta AI.

Expanding Beyond Tradition

I took an unconventional path, venturing beyond traditional design education. Collaborating as a co-fashion designer with couturiers in Bangkok, Thailand, I contributed to hotel uniforms, cocktail dresses, and couture gowns, despite not having formal training in fashion design. Here, I developed a sharp intuition for structure, textiles, and elegance.

Reviving the Past: A Collage Reconstruction

This collage/montage reimagines dresses I created in the past, reconstructing them in a modern form through layered compositions with the assistance of Meta AI.

Marlene

Yumiko

Rosetta

Persephone

Aksorn

Cynthia

Eniola

Hyojoo

From Sketch to AI-Integrated Design

This collage illustrates the journey from an initial sketch to an AI-integrated composition, showcasing how artificial intelligence enhances the design process, by refining details, textures, and realism to bridge the gap between concept and execution. While AI was used to generate specific elements for a fresh look, each component still required meticulous positioning and careful layering to fully capture the flawless beauty of the original sketch.

Reimagining Fashion Through AI-Integrated Collage

Utilizing an innovative process of AI-integrated collage, this series merges found imagery with generative prompts to craft highly detailed fashion illustrations. The resulting pieces explore materials, wearability, and craftsmanship, pushing the boundaries of imagination and representation while offering new possibilities for how clothing could actually be made.

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Reimagining the Masters in Contemporary Fashion

This work breathes new life into vidvid aesthetics, visualizing how figures like iconic Mona Lisa and other classical portrait might dress in today’s world. By merging historical artistry with modern fashion gorgeousness, it explores the evolution of style across centuries, bridging the past with the present in a striking visual narrative.

"No Mads Released - Mona Lisa"

The piece begins as a photomontage and transitions into an AI‑generated video montage that reconceptualizes the Mona Lisa through a fusion of bohemian style and Rococo aesthetics. This fashion illustration functions as a prototype for the eventual creation of the physical costume.

"No Mads Released - Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline"

The animation begins as a photomontage and transitions into an AI‑generated video montage that reimagines Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's "Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie" with a contemporary look, incorporating bohemian style and Rococo aesthetics, and featuring a seamless floral background.

Trash Crisis

Or Live With It

Act Now

Innovating with Sustainability & Storytelling

Recently, I’ve focused on wearable arts and accessories, including backpacks and totes crafted from discarded materials and found objects. By blending trash with haute couture aesthetics, I challenge perceptions of waste and elevate sustainability into luxury.

Trash to Couture & Behind the Making

A look into the construction of backpacks crafted entirely from reclaimed and upcycled waste, including discarded plastic coffee bags, newspapers, magazines, soft plastics, and snack packaging. While these pieces are not a standalone solution for global waste management or ocean pollution, they serve as a call to action: urging artists, designers, and environmental enthusiasts to radically reconceptualize discarded objects and transform the overlooked into high couture. (Displayed from multiple angles: front, back, and sides.)

Oreo Relic: Heavy Metal

Constructed from discarded Oreo and snack packaging fused with heavy-duty cotton canvas, this durable utility backpack is engineered to carry over 20 kg (44 lbs). Embellished with pearls, crystals, rhinestones, gemstones, chiffon, and an array of found objects, the design juxtaposes everyday industrial waste with opulent craft—transforming discarded materials into something entirely new and majestic. (Displayed from multiple angles: front, back, and sides.)

Sacred Ruin:
Upcycled Distressed Denim

This custom wearable art piece reimagines a heavily distressed greyish-green denim jacket through a maximalist approach. Shown from the front, it features camouflage underlayers, an exposed red zipper, pink chiffon rosettes, an embroidered blue Oni demon patch, star appliques, safety pins, and draping lines of pearls and rhinestones.

Centered on the back is a dramatic portrait of Christ crowned with thorns, surrounded by lavish strands of lustrous faux pearls, gemstones, crystals, metallic beads, colorful safety pins, and delicate chiffon floral rosettes. The extreme rips and shredded textures of the jacket contrast directly with the intricate detail of the decorations, framing themes of destruction, devotion, renewal, and sustainable couture storytelling.

Quisquiliae 21st century Dadaism:
Art and Design for All Possible Worlds

This series of a tote and a bag are part of “Quisquiliae 21st century Dadaism: Art and Design for All Possible Worlds,” Fall 2020, where I made Dadaist collages before sewing the tote and handbag. The items are very durable and capable of carrying over 50 kg (110 lbs) because the lining is durable organic cotton canvas. (Quisquiliae means “waste matter” in Latin.)

Heavy Duty Tote

Substantial Handbag

Heavy Duty Tote

Substantial Handbag

Construction Detail

Quisquiliae Purse from Trash

This purse is crafted from absorbent packaging wadding and used plastic nylon thread rolls, reconceptualizing and transforming discarded materials into functional items while displaying them as an art piece.

This purse is crafted from absorbent packaging wadding and plastic, reconceptualizing and transforming discarded materials into functional items while demonstrating a concern for trash pollution.

Quisquiliae Dadaist Purse

This purse is crafted from discarded materials and shaped like a 3D Dadaist sculpture. It is both functional and durable.

Dodi & Mina: Collectibles from a Discarded World

Handmade plush collectibles crafted from upcycled materials and industrial waste, including discarded snack packaging, Oreo wrappers, plastic buttons,and mailing bags. Adorned with gold sequins, button eyes, strings of pearls, beads, pearl shells, crystals, and charms, Dodi & Mina turn overlooked trash into tactile, character-driven sculptures that physicalize themes of playful survival and material transformation.

“Quisquiliae Vestis”
From Trash to Couture

This jacket is part of my “Quisquiliae 21st century Dadaism: Art and Design for All Possible Worlds” series, and it addresses the decline of the publishing industry caused by new online business models, economic crises, and increased commercialization.

Dadaist collages were first constructed from upcycled newspapers, magazines, and found objects. Then, the collages were draped on a mannequin to form the shape of the jacket, creating a voluminous and avant-garde structure. A zipper was stitched so the jacket would be easy to put on or take off, and plastic inner and outer linings were added to make it rain-resistant.

Decorations made of mesh packaging, jingle bells, and bubble wrap add texture and a chic finish, while ostrich feathers provide a “haute couture” look. (Quisquiliae means “waste matter” and Vestis means “clothing” in Latin.)

War & Rebirth: A Reimagined Narrative

Once worn by the Grenztruppen der DDR (Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic) during the Cold War, this coat carried the weight of surveillance and control. Through upcycling, it has been transformed—adorned with jingle bells, artificial flowers, plastic bottles, and plastic straps, each element disrupting its former identity. The rigid military garment now challenges perceptions of history, sustainability, and reinvention, turning a relic of division into a bold artistic statement.

The "Sonitus Strepitus" features ornate embellishments on the shoulders, arranged in a dramatic diagonal perspective to enhance visual impact. The interplay of gold, red, and white hues highlights the military green, adding a distinctive and sophisticated elegance to the ensemble.

Trash Crisis:
Experimental Typography

Custom experimental typography spelling out "TRASH" and "TRASH CRISIS." All letters are textile-stitched, appliquéed, and hand-sewn using upcycled metallic foil, red plastic mesh, safety pins, and found object buttons. This piece treats lettering as a tactile, sculptural medium and bridges graphic letterforms with upcycled embroidery craft.

The Upcycled
Architectural Ensemble:
Dress & Headwear

Our global economic system depends on the overconsumption of disposable consumer goods, driving pollution, health hazards, and ecological catastrophe. In response, I worked with discarded plastics, food packaging, newspapers, magazines, and other unwanted materials to create a costume collection featuring a couture gown and hat.

Through this wearable art, I wanted to explore post-industrial consumerism and costume design by constructing bold patterns, shapes, and volumes. Essentially, I envisioned this as poster design brought into a 3D, wearable form, integrating raw printed layouts with gemstones, sequins, and decorative embellishments that you would never encounter in traditional graphic design. While this kind of multi-media layering is common in fine art, it is rarely seen executed in wearable form.

To highlight craftsmanship techniques that are often overlooked as “high art,” I incorporated embroidery and hand-weaving methods into the construction. I also selected a deliberate color palette and specific draping style to transform everyday trash into high couture.

Ultimately, this collection addresses several systems in our world that urgently require attention, including our polluted oceans, the declining publishing industry, the changing climate, the use of unwanted materials, and the impermanent beauty of imperfection.

Trash-to-Treasure Tote

More
Than
Just A Tote

"Super Tote No.1"

H.16” W.19” D.7”, SUMMER 2022 (Displayed from multiple angles: front, back, and sides.)

This tote is part of the From Trash-to-Couture Collection (2022) and TRASH CRISIS: ACT NOW OR LIVE WITH IT (2023) series, which aims to upcycle, redefine, and give new meaning to discarded objects. The project addresses the issues of overconsumption, resulting in wasteful disposable consumer goods, pollution, natural disasters, and the climate crisis. Moreover, this project aims to reconceptualize Dadaist collage and principles through fashion and textile design, crafting textures, patterns, and shapes that go beyond conventional aesthetics to offer both beauty and practicality.

Most importantly, I want to raise awareness among the audience about the consequences of trash pollution. If we don't take action now, the effects could become overwhelming, and we may have to live with the unexpected consequences.

Luminous Waste:

"Quisquiliae Lamina" Chandelier &

Cosmic Burst Lamp

Beyond simply reusing waste to demonstrate how artists and designers can integrate unwanted materials into their practice, these pieces function as prototypes. They prove that these complex, avant-garde aesthetics can ultimately be executed using premium materials for high-end interior platforms.

Quisquiliae Lumina (Chandelier)

Influenced by Dadaism and the organic forms of jellyfish, this chandelier is constructed using a limited palette of bottles, primarily shades of green reminiscent of the Aesthetic Movement’s "greenery-yallery" style and Art Nouveau. An internal wire mesh forms organic shapes while providing structural strength.

Cosmic Burst (Desk Lamp)

An innovative sculptural desk lamp constructed entirely from upcycled, discarded corrugated packaging boxes and paper. Inspired by cosmic nebulae and the kinetic expansion of the universe, the piece utilizes faceted geometric octahedron and icosahedron shapes to evoke stellar formation.

In astronomy, nebulae and cosmic bursts are often conceptualized through crystalline structures, particle dynamics, and faceted light refractions. Utilizing polyhedra such as icosahedrons, stellations, and faceted spheres bridges the gap between raw organic explosion and mathematical universal order.

Personal Design Philosophy

At the core of my work is an obsession with ethereal, intricate layering, and bold storytelling, each piece woven with intention. Here, you’ll find a collection of my old sketches, newly refined illustrations, and latest fashion and accessory concepts, designs I plan to transform into a dramatic, operatic fashion collection soon.