ve discovered early on in my life that career aspirations and line of work were not interests I share with my father.

A similar mind yet a different purpose.

This collection was also an opportunity to collaborate with my father and try to gain an understanding of his perspective towards what I do. Asking him to draw garments and accessories without any restrictions or much instruction gave light to his visual and aesthetic identity, with disproportionate and asymmetrical silhouettes and jagged, sharp lines.

Combining the two worlds of engineering and fashion design, the collection highlights utility and work wear. With fabrication that reflect each other’s perspective of work wear, me with my idea of professional work wear as suiting and pinstripes, whereas in my father’s field of work workwear is a form of protection that uses materials such as leather, denim, vinyl and nylon to keep the workers safe.

Through this thesis, I am exploring the process of the fashion and engineering industry and also how it has impacted my father’s perspectives and mine. With the experimentation of joining, distorting and reversing processes in both of our fields of work, it may result innovative outcomes of creating new processes that align with both our ways of thinking and utilize the accumulated skills that we have acquired through the different career journeys we embarked on.