EVANESCENS
Individual fashion collection developed for Lunar Gala Fashion Show 2022: Eternal Garden Location: Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh PA
Media: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2022/march/lunar-gala-2022
https://2022.lunargala.org/
EVANESCENS seeks to construct a commoning territory between garment and memory. Embracing the ephemerality under the irretrievable directionality of time, the collection is a study on the juxtaposition of weathering and retention of organic matter.
The aging of organisms can be understood as the erosion process by incrementing entropy. Are we able to extend the identity of an organism by weaving its evanescing longevity into the temporary presence?
Botanic material was chosen to be the retention device that imprints its formal characteristics onto garments. Translated by the technicity of chemical and heat, the transitory memory and identity can be molded and recollected within their trace on textile.
Once the immeasurable relic of time is captured, preserved, and eternalized, an ambivalent intimacy emerges within the thinning threshold between body, garment, and memory.
Design/fabrication:
Sean Meng
Lookbook:
Sean Meng
Stage design:
CMU School of Design
Model:
Paulin Qin, Lucy Altus, Mabel Tsado, Tiffany Kim, Jamie Liu, Anita Cheng, Olivia Wu, Morgan Boyd
Soundtrack:
Cody Rong
Cinematography:
Peiran Ge, jason Xu, Judy Xu, Jd Hopper, Creighton Arrington