Knitwear
Hanqing Ding
Hanqing Ding is a womenswear designer with four years of weaving and two years of knitwear experience. She is also a fashion illustrator. Her illustration works have been published in many fashion magazines and books. Her painting skills give her design work a more delicate and subtle understanding of the temperament of lines. Using her feelings as an inspiration, she blends line art and fashion and uses storytelling to establish a connection with the audience.
The aim is to encourage people to be playful with things they cannot fully control or unknown, and to find the balance of power between themselves and the outside world, learning to feel comfortable in any uncertain situation.
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“This project was inspired by my personal feelings towards an uncertain situation. It is like a record of all my mindsets during this special period. It depicts an idealized attitude towards this world full of insecurity that cannot be controlled.”
In this project, the combination of metal wire with knitted materials builds a silhouette for the garment with the sense of skeleton – but one that can be controlled only partially, through careful deformation. Just like, as we face a world full of uncertainty, we may master some aspects of it, but can't completely control it as a whole. The boundaries of real and unreal become blurred and uncertain.
The aim is to encourage people to be playful with things they cannot fully control or unknown, and to find the balance of power between themselves and the outside world, learning to feel comfortable in any uncertain situation.
In this project, the combination of metal wire with knitted materials builds a silhouette for the garment with the sense of skeleton – but one that can be controlled only partially, through careful deformation. Just like, as we face a world full of uncertainty, we may master some aspects of it, but can't completely control it as a whole. The boundaries of real and unreal become blurred and uncertain.
The aim is to encourage people to be playful with things they cannot fully control or unknown, and to find the balance of power between themselves and the outside world, learning to feel comfortable in any uncertain situation.