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WORK · 06 - WHITE-SHIRT PROJECT

Circuit of Life

Hanoi hangs its nervous system in the open air. Wires, order, chaos. I studied them by hand, with thread and pencil, and cut their strange beauty into a white shirt. A responsible future begins by looking up.

The research here is analog: hand-made mood boards of wire and thread, pencil sketch sheets, and a pleated white shirt built with French and lapped seams.

[ Customer board ]

Customer study: the urban minimalist. Moodboard muse: Bella Hadid.

Lightbox doorway photoshoot, front view of the white wired-pleat shirt with black denim fishtail skirt
Side view, full length, showing the trailing skirt in the lightbox doorway
PL. 01Photoshoot
Back view of the corset-laced shirt back
PL. 02Photoshoot
Three-quarter view looking down, the closing frame of the shoot
PL. 03Photoshoot
Front illustration of the look in marker style
PL. 04Technical illustration
Back illustration of the look
PL. 05Technical illustration
Black-and-white construction sketch of the shirt, front and back, with the wire-pleat yoke visible
PL. 06Technical illustration
Sketchbook page of Hanoi's old-quarter electrical wires, the source of the concept
PL. 07Concept board
Hand-stitched wire-and-thread research spread pairing tangled Hanoi power-line photography with a hand-mapped wire diagram
PL. 08Development board
Concept development spread of hand-drawn wire coils and a croquis line-up with a handwritten design brief
PL. 09Concept board
The original spreads

As printed, 5 pages

The pages of her printed portfolio, uncropped. The plates above were cut from these.

Project title spread: Circuit of Life, on Hanoi's tangled electrical wiring.
SP. 01Project title spread: Circuit of Life, on Hanoi's tangled electrical wiring.
Market and textiles research board studying archive designers and shirt references.
SP. 02Market and textiles research board studying archive designers and shirt references.
Mood boards mapping tangled wires, Rick Owens references, the mechanical-body concept.
SP. 03Mood boards mapping tangled wires, Rick Owens references, the mechanical-body concept.
Sketch, textile testing and accessory-nail design spread for the shirt.
SP. 04Sketch, textile testing and accessory-nail design spread for the shirt.
Mood collage, technical drawing and final illustration of the finished shirt.
SP. 05Mood collage, technical drawing and final illustration of the finished shirt.