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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.  

Contact

www.yuyihsuan.com

instagram @_yuyi_

Degree Details

School of Design

Menswear

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.   

001.

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.

In Collaboration with:

Accessories collaboration
Crochet collaboration
FluidityGenderknitwearMenswearSexualitySoftTactilityTailoring

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