wearable art

INTERVIEW | Yimei Zhu

INTERVIEW | Yimei Zhu

Yimei (Emair) Zhu is an interdisciplinary artist. Her art, spanning interactive wearables to bio-art, challenges conventional views on disability, aiming to redefine human interaction and perception through the fusion of art and technology. By exploring new sensory worlds and advocating for posthumanism, Yimei invites audiences to experience life from diverse, inclusive perspectives.

INTERVIEW | Ruoyan Er

INTERVIEW | Ruoyan Er

Ruoyan Er is an artist in the fashion realm, specializing in draping, garment construction, and textiles. As a storytelling designer, she skillfully uses design to convey emotions, serving as a visual language narrator. She merges natural textures with fashion aesthetics, integrating the unique qualities weathering brings. Each fabric tells a story of time passing, and her designs echo the wonders of continuous change and rebuilding.

INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch

INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch

Jessalyn Finch has been a visual artist since 2009. Post-pandemic, Finch continued to focus on the conceptual work of body perception and voyeurism. Her body of work combines large-scale drawing and sculpture to investigate our experiences and perceptions of the human body. Her current work explores body dysmorphia, identity, and sense of self. The themes are meant to be a catalyst for discussion and connection through shared experience.

INTERVIEW | Paula Fernández López

INTERVIEW | Paula Fernández López

Paula Fernández López is a Spanish designer, born in Seville in 2002. Paula's works of art focus on the creative process's conceptual basis. It allows one to get a free interpretation of her designs, which norms and standards show very clearly and identify aesthetics. Ripped textures, a short neutral color palette, and an avant-garde style are the main elements that make her different and define her as an artist.

INTERVIEW | Sophie Lin

INTERVIEW | Sophie Lin

Sophie Lin is a multidisciplinary technician and artist born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. Now based in New York City, she works primarily in the theater arts. She is a makeup artist, costume designer, fabric painter, and wig technician. She thinks art itself is like a house with different windows. The artist own the house, all the windows are just different platforms for the storytelling but they all lead you to the artist mind and their imagination.

INTERVIEW | Jongbum Kim

INTERVIEW | Jongbum Kim

Jongbum Kim is a New York-based designer, artist, and illustrator who explores the ideas of gender and multicultural communities through the medium of cloth. With a strong belief in seeing and experiencing the world firsthand, Jongbum’s designs are filled with color and symbolism, both literal and figurative, engaging the viewer and provoking them to respond.

INTERVIEW | Yan Yang

INTERVIEW | Yan Yang

Yan Yang is a painter, installation artist, fashion art designer, and textile pattern designer. She is based in Chicago, IL. Yan believes that art and design are connected, and she often combines painting and fashion to create large-scale installations. Her work reflects the psychological healing effect of fashion art on people. Her art series "Standard Smile" hopes to give people the confidence and courage to face trauma and be able to heal.

INTERVIEW | Milena ZeVu

INTERVIEW | Milena ZeVu

Milena ZeVu is a Serbian artist based in Belgrade. She always wanted her art to be more dynamic. Her latest series, ArtWalks, emphasizes her need to free art from the conventional exhibition space and the dominant western system of contemporary art, to which most artists are strongly subordinated. Milena unites with her art to defend it and preserve art's supreme independence and freedom.

INTERVIEW | Sotiria Bramou

INTERVIEW | Sotiria Bramou

Sotiria Bramou works as a Visual Designer in the city of Athens. She moves and experiments by blurring the lines between visual & wearable art. Sotiria's work deconstructs the dominant social stereotypes and expresses her own values as a worker, as a female, as a designer. She gets inspired by the "abnormal", the "dirty", the "freak", and the "obscene".