The collection centers around the anxiety of falling behind, resulting in a never-ending compulsion to push for discipline and productivity. With the start of Thesis and the end of our lives as a student in school, the looming deadline of real life responsibilities pose as a big factor of the internal unease at hand.
With the anxiety driven white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland acting as the muse for this collection, the collection approaches the theme through the lens of victoriana. Starting my initial research from Victorian era garments around 1865, when Alice's adventures in wonderland by Lewis Carrol was written, the collection begins from the inspiration of Victoriana but bring us back into a modern sense of design.
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The concept of chaos within order, an idea derived from the contradicting state I found myself in, externally working to maximize productivity and discipline while the internal sense of uncertainty and anxiousness lingered becomes the focal point of the collection exploring ambiguity, imperfection and constriction. Prints were developed through a mad tea party, where cakes, pastries, and tea were freely smashed around to create ambiguous patterns that without context, one would never know it came from a destructive process. The pocket watch was abstracted into shapes and incorporated into the design as a metaphor of the limited time we have at hand.
Through a modern interpretation of these victorian silhouettes, designs utilizing abstracted shapes extracted from the research, and print designs created through hosting a mad tea party, the collection aims to capture a sense of internal unease within a drive for discipline.
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