Scroll to explore
What Artists Wear is a menswear collection inspired by the everyday clothing choices of artists and their intimate relationship with dress. Drawing from Charlie Porter's book of the same name, the project reimagines tailoring through a lens of function, memory, and personal ritual. As a female designer working in menswear, I approaches tailoring not from tradition, but through observation, offering a perspective that questions fixed gender codes and expands the expressive possibilities of male clothing. My work combines minimalist tailoring with subtle disruptions: garments are softened, structures loosened, and details carefully embedded to carry traces of artistic living. The collection blends the practicality of daily wear with the emotional depth of lived experience. Shirting and suiting are reinterpreted through gathering, pressed textures, and hand-finished techniques that highlight time and touch. Inspired by figures like Agnes Martin, Francis Bacon, and Yves Klein, the garments echo the quiet radicalism of those who live through making, artists whose clothes are not for show, but for process. My design DNA lies in translating artistic concepts into garments that are meant to be worn, remembered, and transformed through use. I believes clothing is a form of soft architecture, not only protecting the body, but also recording the gestures and rhythms of daily life.