How stretch performance fabrics respond to hypothetical low-gravity environments — drape mechanics, seam tension, kinetic expression.
Exploring the Singer 119W1 hemstitcher as a drawing tool. Open-work patterns that treat negative space as active structure.
Bio
Clothes entered my life through my grandmother. She learned to sew from her own grandmother in the rural farmlands of South Korea. By the time I knew her, she was quilting at the kitchen table — saving worn shirts, fabric scraps, and old linens, cutting them apart and stitching them by hand back into usefulness. What looked ready to discard to everyone else became material for another life. From her I learned the vocabulary of clothes and a way of thinking about making: patient, practical, and imaginative. It is the inheritance that began my relationship to clothing.
I took that thinking with me early. As a child in dance classes, I became fascinated with the mechanics of costumes. I would turn my dancewear inside out to study where stretch panels were placed, how seams allowed the body to move, and even how thoughtfully abrasive trims like sequins were placed in areas of low friction. The curiosity never left — how things are held together, and how to build from there.
When my daughter Jane was born, the work gained a different horizon. Children look forward instinctively; they assume the future will exist and that it will belong to them. Designing with her in mind has sharpened my optimism and my sense of responsibility toward the next frontier. The types of clothes I make now are small proposals for the world she will grow into.
For me, making garments is how I understand the world around me. Questions about movement, material, technology, and everyday life converge through the act of construction. Each project becomes a form of inquiry into how we live in our bodies and how clothing might evolve alongside us.
Pisces Rising is my independent fashion project exploring garments engineered for the body in motion. The work sits between dancewear, eveningwear, and speculative design — carrying traces of the past into possible futures, guided by a simple conviction: we are approaching a threshold, and we will cross it in these bodies. The garment is preparation for arrival.
True Legends Archive is my vintage curation project — a collection of rare and exceptional garments sourced from decades of fashion history. Each piece is selected for its construction, its material story, or the way it captures a moment in design thinking. The archive is both a personal study and a public offering: a way to keep extraordinary work in circulation, and to honor the makers whose names may have faded but whose craft endures.