vulnerable body

Tailoring | University of Westminster, MFA Menswear with Professional Experience | 2023

Drawing from historical and contemporary research revolving around Alexander McQueen’s legacy of tailoring and brand identity, this design investigation to present a tailoring piece that

This garment was featured in the ____ at Milan Fashion Week in June 2025.

This project revolves around Alexander McQueen’s legacy of tailoring, calling for the synthesization of historical and contemporary research—surrounding both McQueen’s brand identity and newly-introduced references—to create an original series of design investigations. Starting from a few conceptual tenets of the current McQueen brand—namely human anatomy and fragility and power—I explored the ideas and visuals of the vulnerability of the body, self-defense, martial arts, military combatives, protective garments, and embracing the softness amidst harder structures within tailoring.