I miss you is what I said the most
Category: Apparel
Competitions: Fashion Competition 2026
This collection is inspired by a long-distance relationship I had before, the experience makes me thinking about how people nowadays maintain the relationship through the phone, and if the connection and feeling we feel through text and call are real. And in the long distance relationships we often say "I miss you" more than "I love you" because of the distance and everything happens on phone, trapped behind a phone screen, that is why I use jacquard techniques, I knit images directly into the fabric, creating an illusion where the virtual and the real are blur it is like seeing someone through a screen, clearly there, but untouchable. This "flat illusion" symbolises that everything keeps in the screen the emotion. To ground these digital longings back into the physical world, I consciously chose eco-friendly cotton yarn as my primary material. This choice not only reduces environmental impact and ensures circularity, but the natural, pure texture of the cotton also contrasts with the coldness of digital screens, reinforcing the organic authenticity of real human feelings. The lace patchwork incorporated into the series represents the romance and tenderness that still exist within relationships — a longing for genuine connection, even when wrapped in rationality and technology. The overall design responds to how people today rely on mobile phones to maintain relationships, while also attempting to transform those compressed, delayed, and distorted emotions into wearable pieces with warmth. This is an experiment in expressing emotion through knitting — a question and a gaze directed at love in the digital age.
