About
I am Tạ Phương Linh, art director and fashion designer. I am an architect of systems that tell stories. My tools are artificial intelligence, pattern, and discipline. With them, imagination costs the earth nothing, and convention holds no authority.
Creativity should never come at the expense of the planet. A beautiful idea should never die because of a budget. My designs speak for the things people have not yet found words to say. They speak of the era we live in, and of the world within us.
I prioritize beauty, and I answer to the practicalities of life. Softness beside strength. Experiment before convention. I refuse confinement to any framework.
Typography leads; white space is structural; the page reads as a publication.
Structure before ornament; silhouettes built the way buildings are.
Texture as emotional anchor; material carries cultural memory.
Technology as quiet atmosphere; machines treated as poetic objects.
Fewer mistakes. Deeper meaning.
The promise every system I build must keep
Jan 2026 - present
Leads and trained a team of six on generative AI, reaching full AI integration in pre-production. Reduced physical production costs by 40 percent and doubled shooting capacity to 14 concepts per month through AI and in-house fabrication. Ongoing research: Claude AI for automated research and material moodboard workflows, and an automated prompt system for virtual character integration.
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Promoted from assistant to set designer within five months. Built creative sets for fashion lookbooks and commercial shoots; managed production operations and monthly budgets.
Education
London College for Design & Fashion, Hanoi (2024-2026). BTEC HND, Fashion Design. 165 BTEC credits completed, 75 in progress for the Final Project. Distinction in 8 of 10 core modules (Individual Project, Fashion & Textiles Practices, Pattern Cutting); Young Design Talent Scholarship, 40 percent of tuition.
Hanoi Architectural University (2021-2024). Industrial Art, Fashion Design. GPA 3.08 of 4.0, 96 credits. Top modules: Fashion Creation 2 (9.2/10), Accessories Design (9.0/10), CLO3D computer-aided design (9.0/10).
Certificates: Donghua University, Digital Virtual Fashion (2023); Parsons, Fashion Design and Fashion Systems (2021); Bocconi, Management of Fashion and Luxury (2021); MoMA, Fashion as Design (2020).
Skills
Collection development · Material research · Garment construction · Fashion illustration · Set design and styling · Art direction
Technology
CLO3D · Adobe CC · Pattern making in Illustrator · Midjourney / Nano Banana · Veo / Kling