Hyeonsu Cheong
Fashion MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Womenswear / Textiles for Fashion / Textiles - Knit
My location: London, United Kingdom
Hyeonsu Cheong
First Name: Hyeonsu
Last Name: Cheong
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Fashion MA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Womenswear / Textiles for Fashion / Textiles - Knit
My Location: London, United Kingdom
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About
Hyeonsu was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. After graduating, she worked as a woman’s office wear designer in Seoul, South Korea. She has developed her skills as a designer and maker upon that practice throughout her work experience. She has expanded her design research and pattern-cutting skills through a Graduate Diploma course at Central Saint Martins to make silhouettes to empower women’s emotions to take ownership of their own bodies.During her time at the RCA, she has started to subvert conventional lines of office wear by prioritizing comfortable clothes. She has worked on practicing draping silhouettes as playing with fabric tension and expanded her skills to knitting on dubied, which resulted in creating the aesthetic of releasing the stress of tightening.Hyeonsu specializes in design research, image-making, pattern-cutting, draping, and textile development.
The title of this body of work is “Release Tension” During my work experience as an office wear designer, I feel that conventional lines to emphasize the woman’s body curve restrict their movement and feel uncomfortable. This project is about the aesthetic of looseness, showing a draped silhouette as experimenting with the tension of the fabric. Firstly, I started to destroy the conventional lines that tighten women's bodies to emphasize a curvy silhouette. Then I developed a ‘stretchy seamline that opens the seam-line by making a Rib knit textile (diamond shape, hidden dart shape, linear shape following the body curve). Also, by joining stretchy fabric and knit, I get many chances to make a variety of silhouettes by playing with their tension. It became to make creases naturally following the body shape, not tighten the body. Also, this exploration inspires me to design more different kinds of lines harmonious with the overall fluid silhouette as subverting basic lines in clothes.
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