#Fashion #2022 RCA Royal Academy of Arts MA FASHION Mid-Show
Graduate: Hye Cho
Specialty: Womenswear
Hye Cho is a Korean designer who currently lives in London. The consistency of the series is her strong point. Her question was always there: How can I get to the essence of clothing? Handmade, slowly, everything is meticulously crafted. She tries to rediscover situations that can fill the things around us and that naturally exist in our daily lives. Therefore, even in this urgent period, art and design are indispensable to her. She felt the joy of unexpected recognition. It can have huge creative potential. Inspired by traditional clothing methods and cultures from around the world, Hye Cho combines them to create a modern approach to clothing making. The act of weaving the stems of grass and trees to make the necessary items may have existed since the beginning of humans.
What Hye Cho sees at a London weaving studio seems to date back to an era of sustainable manufacturing environments, community building and self-sufficiency. Much of Hye Cho's inspiration comes from the art of weaving. She learned how to weave by hand without a loom and needed to understand the structure of the weave. When Hye Cho took a larger sample, she found that the strength that was not in the fibers was supported by metal, and the flexibility of metals without flexibility was caused by fibers. When she learned about hand-knitting structures, she was able to get rid of material-oriented thinking and move on to the experimental stage, weaving not only with fibers, but also with laser-cut fabrics. The process of material experience hye Cho begins with the material experience.
When we literally sweep the floor of the fashion studio, we pick out the pin at the end. All the cards and plastic fragments were thrown away, but the metal was considered valuable, and there is a lot of writing about this relationship with humans. It is precious and has a high symbolic value in jewelry. It's interesting to see different joining systems and different material values. So Hye Cho began exploring the idea of combining the values of silk and metal: two different characteristics of softness and hardness. She tries to capture the process of making soft fibrous materials into fabrics through a metal-based process. Using the properties of metal, she began electroforming, a jewelry technique to test how it affects woven fabrics. Finding the right material while considering the properties of the material is also part of the experiment, and solving what the right material is also one of the necessary processes.
Hye Cho starts with research and selection of qualitative natural fibers that can be verified and increased in recycling. She embarked on a journey to find the right materials and combined a series that utilized woven structures to raise expectations for a richer collection for the next phase. She believes that using knowledge from the past reveals the enormous potential to reimagine value chains for the benefit of all and can be a way to fascinate the world again.
