Meet Zining Ye From The Fashion Institute Of Technology ─ Winner Of The Formal Couture Prize At The ARTHSTHREAD Global Design Graduate Show 2023
Image By Courtesy of ZINING YE
Chinese-born, New York-based, Zining Ye, is a designer who strives to create a fashion language that juxtaposes chaos with tranquility and maximalism with restraint.
Form and textile manipulation are central to her work. Traditional silhouettes are fused with architectonic textiles, and neutral palettes combine with rigid volumes to create collections that are quietly striking.
During her studies in the FIT MFA Fashion Program, Zining Ye found a balance between traditional Asian culture and modern expression.
In Her Own Words
In Asian culture, restraint is a central theme.
I began my collection from my curiosity about my grandmother’s generation and the social-cultural constructs of her era. Despite external suppression of individualism during that era, internal expression and freedom persisted.
My collection, “Fancy Inside”, seeks to represent the friction of internal and external worlds by playing with the juxtaposition of fluidity and rigidity in form and textile and mixing traditional Eastern crafts with modern materials
ARTSTHREAD Global Design Graduate Show 2023
Global Design Graduate Show* in collaboration with GUCCI was open to all undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate art and design disciplines for those that have graduated between September 2022 - August 2023 (Southern hemisphere graduating after October 2022).
The Global Design Graduate Show 2023 was your chance to share your creative work alongside your peers from around the world and get it judged by industry leaders.
It was your chance to curate your creative personality by mixing research with 2D/3D development documenting all the different creative and technical development stages up to the final outcome.
It would be good to know your personal creative journey, whether by photo or film.
We also encouraged you to produce a short self-curated Instagram stories style film to introduce your work to the world in your own words and visuals.
