BFA COLLECTION
PREVIEW
Spring 22 'Bird Cage'
Eileen Chang, a Chinese writer who centered on women under the Republican era, exposed women’s situation in that era. Marriage became a shackle for women’s lives. They depended on men both physically and mentally. Canary as a metaphor in her novels, satirizes the miserable state of women's lives. I hope this project is a visual exposion of the constraint, and also an awaken of female power.
Designer: Jiarui Gu
Photographer: Angel Huang
Photography Assistant: Siwei Gao
Model: Emily & Sophia
'Bird Cage' Look 01
'Bird Cage' Look 03
Fall 2021 'Folding'
A look inspired by a traditional Japanese craft, origami. Influenced by the layered structure and technique it possesses, I used boning and folds to simulate the effect of origami.
Designer: Jiarui Gu
Model: Jiarui Gu
Photographer: Angel Huang
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Spring 2021
'Pant' Project
Three pants inspired by three words, ‘expansion, structure and fluidity’. By using similar fabrics, the denim and leather, to show how these words can be represented differently by using different techniques and silhouettes.
Look 1 'Expansion'
Designer: Jiarui Gu
Model: Jiarui Gu
Photographer: Elena Zhu
Look 2 'Structure'
Look 3 'Fluidity'
Spring 2021
'A New Shirt'
"Transforming A Normal Shirt"
Designer: Jiarui Gu
Model: Jiarui Gu
Photographer: Vivian Hong
Fall 2020
'A Talk to Chiharu Shiota'
Line Up
A Year2 Project Inspired by Japanese Artist Chiharu Shiota. Using red, black and white as the main color tone to deliver a motion of depression, restriction and control. This is a shirt project which each look is developed based on a the form of shirt.
Design Process
Mood Board
Fabric Manipulation
Spring 2020
'Dream'
Inspired by Freud's interpretation of dreams, I tried to use the reflection of organza and the use of light and shadow to create a variety of colors on different white fabrics to create a dream-like virtual world as a way to describe those beautiful dreams I have had before.
Designer: Jiarui Gu
Model: Jiarui Gu
Photographer: Ming Sun
Spring 2020
'Love Jacket'
This is a tragic love story that revolves around a couple who have cancer. The boy scattered his ashes into the sea in order to guard the girl, and kept himself by the sea for the rest of his life. I used this as inspiration and combined the shapes and colors of the waves to create this love jacket.
Designer: Jiarui Gu
Model: Jiarui Gu
Photographer: Vivian Hong