Utopia Womenswear Collection by Yina Hwang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Competition Category.
SilverFashion· 2020
Utopia Womenswear Collection
by Yina Hwang
Client: Yina Hwang
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Fashion Category
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About Utopia Womenswear Collection
In this collection, Yina Hwang was mainly inspired by shapes that are symmetric and asymmetric with a touch of underground music culture. She curated this collection based on her pivotal moment of self embracement to create a collection of functional yet abstract garments and accessories to embody the story of her experience. Every print and fabric in the project is original and she mainly used PU leather, Satin, Power Mash, and Spandex for the base of the fabrics.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Utopia Womenswear Collection is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Utopia Womenswear Collection is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Utopia Womenswear Collection is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Contemporary Womenswear Collections
We create boundary-breaking fashion that celebrates individuality and self-expression. Our collections blend functional design with abstract artistry, empowering wearers to embrace their authentic selves. Featured in Vogue, recognized with the prestigious A' Design Award.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I started my first fashion job in 2013 and worked for a womenswear designer at a small atelier. I earned my BFA degree in fashion design program at Parsons School of Design.
I have worked in New York, China and South Korea in fashion design, sales and wholesale departments. Fashion companies including Jonathan Simkhai, Lie Sang Bong and more. I had my first collection debut at Fusion Fashion Show in 2016. In 2020, I showcased my first Fall Collection during New York Fashion Week.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I wanted this project to embody my life story and emotions. At the same time, I focused on the garment constructions and fabric prints.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I would love to collaborate with different photographers and stylists for editorial projects.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The designer was brought up in a Korean society where everybody demanded perfection in appearance. Since young, her asymmetrical face made her feel like she was ugly or not up to society’s demand of perfection. That put her in a box where it restricted her freedom of thought and expression. Yina curated this collection based on her pivotal moment of self embracement while she was traveling the world in 2018, to create the functional yet abstract garments to embody the story of her experience.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- US size 2 to 6
- Tags
- Embracement, Self-empowerment, Balance, Symmetricity, Asymmetricity
- Production Technology
- To start this collection, I self-experimented by going towards the other end of the spectrum of what society views as “perfect” by using surgery tape to distort my physical appearance to lay down the foundation of what I will be creating. The distortion led to the collages. The collages led to the prints which also created the silhouettes to my initial prototypes. Every print and fabric in the project is original and I mainly used PU leather, Satin, Power Mash, and Spandex for the base of the fabrics.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was getting the right prints on the right fabric. Every fabric has a different result of prints and has a different approach to sewing. I went through a series of fabric tests and garment prototypes to reach the final result.
- Research
- As I immersed myself into the underground music culture, I was inspired by how people with different backgrounds, shapes, colors, genders, and sexuality are embraced under one roof and it led me to a self-empowering moment. I researched its culture, how diverse people live and what they wear. These researches and experiments laid down the foundation of this project.
- Inspiration
- This project was mainly inspired by the shapes that are symmetric and asymmetric with a touch of underground music culture. Depending on the line of division, a symmetrical shape can be simultaneously asymmetric. It’s all about how you choose to perceive it. Every shape has its own beauty and every beauty has it’s own shape. This project aims to break down the wearer’s restriction for the freedom of expression, and help the wearers bring out their own spirits.
- Project Duration
- This project started in September 2018 and finished in January 2020 in New York and was presented in New York Fashion Week on February 7th, 2020 in New York, USA.
- Operation Flow
- Some of the garments can transform the shapes by attaching/detaching fabric panels using snaps.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Yina Hwang, 2020.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer John Carlo, 2019
Image #2: Photographer John Carlo, 2019
Image #3: Photographer John Carlo, 2019
Image #4: Photographer John Carlo, 2019
Image #5: Photographer John Carlo, 2019
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