THE COLLECTION
Lookbook
9 composed pages, in their archived sequence. Select a page to look closer.
DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Portfolio
MODEL PROCESS
From pattern to object.
Digital modeling and surface development.
SCULPTURE
Patterns become forms.
Digital sculpture studies.
A pattern, reimagined.
Print and surface variations.
MATERIAL
Colour becomes material.
Original material experiments.
DIGITAL
A future silhouette.
Digital garment renderings.
IMAGE & NARRATIVE
A closer reading
A multi-part fashion investigation bringing together visual research, material tests, print, digital sculpture, renderings and a lookbook.
Question
How can historic visual language be reinterpreted through contemporary fashion media?
Materials & methods
The archived material-test page lists gallnut, garcinia, realgar, bianqing, dragon blood, glycerin, agar and water. The wider project includes print development and virtual fashion imagery.
What is documented
A connected body of experiments and visual outcomes, shown together as a single project.
Credit
From the summer han portfolio archive. Specific collaborator roles, where relevant, are not documented in the source.
A CONVERSATION CAN BE A BEGINNING
Let’s givewonder a form.
A material to explore. A question to follow.
Something we haven’t imagined yet.
Summer Han Wu · Ithaca, New York
DA TANG STILL EXISTS / summer han
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