Menswear
Yi-Hsuan Yu
Yi-Hsuan Yu is a Taiwanese fashion designer based in London and Taipei. Her design delivers confident ease and subtle sensibility. With full knowledge of the characteristics of the materials and the pattern making technical capabilities, she creates her tailorings and knitwears with the aim of creating a new form of comfort.
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002. Opened-up knitted top
003. Distorted folded light wool jacket
004. Stripe cotton knitted top and trousers/ silk crochet skirt-collaboration with Rhona Mackillop
005. One dart wool jacket
006. Dissolved ring - collaboration with KAOMIN
007. Looks — Photography - Sister image Hairdresser - Ihwu Model - Steven Chung
008. Looks — Photography - Sister image Hairdresser - Ihwu Model - Steven Chung
Throughout the world, people in suits pursue high standards of efficiency and accuracy. But I find that the outfit has such a great impact on us, that we gradually lose our intimacy, vulnerability, and individual identities. Clothing can become a shell that hides our emotions.
Therefore my work focuses on the sensitivity of modern masculinity, on interpreting the softness of men’s tailoring through a distorted sense of fluidity and purity. With a softened silhouette, delicate colours, and a layered texture, I aim to subvert the impression of traditional tailoring, offering wearers a new confidence or comfort.
I use a diverse selection of textiles to enhance the tactile stimulation of my designs, against emotional detachment and in favour of an engaging intimacy between wearers and garments. It is important that garments should make people feel relaxed rather than restricted. I intend to bring flexibility into formalwear, to redefine the rigidity of traditional tailoring.
Therefore my work focuses on the sensitivity of modern masculinity, on interpreting the softness of men’s tailoring through a distorted sense of fluidity and purity. With a softened silhouette, delicate colours, and a layered texture, I aim to subvert the impression of traditional tailoring, offering wearers a new confidence or comfort.
I use a diverse selection of textiles to enhance the tactile stimulation of my designs, against emotional detachment and in favour of an engaging intimacy between wearers and garments. It is important that garments should make people feel relaxed rather than restricted. I intend to bring flexibility into formalwear, to redefine the rigidity of traditional tailoring.