About Me
Hi! I'm Corene, a Fashion Knitwear Design graduate from NTU
After going through 3 placements in London - pattern cutting, knitwear studio intern, and production factory; and a Diploma in Sustainable Technologies specialising in Architecture, I am into learning new things that bring new meaning into my everyday life. My interests in fashion encouraged me to move away from home to pursue this degree.
I find all forms of art meaningful when a story is told. I love delving into the how, why, where, when, and what to inspire me to move my projects forward. Working with textiles gave me a deeper understanding of garment and fabric construction and how it could be more sustainable.
INSPIRATION
Inspired by Fungi, I looked into the life cycle of mushrooms.
After flipping through several books and going through Fantastic Fungi (film), mycelium intrigued me. If mushrooms were the flower, mycelium are the roots. Decaying matters are one of the substances mycelium feed on, and the rotting bodies would be covered in these delicate structures to be broken down into. Looking into the delicacy of life and impermanence of death; decaying, rotting, coming back to life by the power of nature, the collection brings out qualities of marvellous Mother Nature.
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MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DETAIL
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The collection brings out qualities of marvellous Mother Nature - things falling apart but still, miraculously staying together to bring new life. The aesthetics of this collection takes fragility and decomposition to silhouettes and structures of knit with movements of mycelia coming through. For my final line up, the asymmetric hems brings out the similarities between all outfits using fabrics of different techniques that creates movement visually.
“Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death” Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
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