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Jiwon Kwon

Jiwon Kwon

London, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE London College of Fashion
Title of Work Jiwon Kwon - Unseen to Seen
SPECIALISMS Womenswear

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I am a womenswear design student at London College of Fashion with a strong interest in research-led and material-focused design. My practice explores deconstruction, focusing on internal structures and hidden systems within objects, particularly shoes, which I reinterpret into garments through pattern cutting and construction. Unseen to seen The project is inspired by Cornelia Parker’s Thirty Pieces of Silver, where everyday objects are flattened to compress time and meaning, transforming functional items into new forms of existence. Similarly, I focus on discarded shoes as objects that carry traces of memory and personal identity. By deconstructing them, I explore their forms, internal materials, and construction details, preserving their narrative while reimagining their presence. Through shoe deconstruction, I investigate internal construction, such as insoles, soles, and layered structures, reinterpreting them as design elements within garments. These are combined with historical garments, revealing traces within aged textiles and exposed construction details. The findings are translated through scaling and repetition into sculptural silhouettes, using exposed seams, hand-finishing, and visible construction to emphasise internality. The collection highlights the beauty of faded, timeworn textures and the accumulation of memory and value, transforming objects once considered insignificant into carriers of personal and collective narratives

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