Knitwear

A Spring/Summer knitwear collection exploring the formation of identity through adolescence, secrecy, and desire. Inspired by the novel Red Azalea by Anchee Min — a memoir in which youth unfolds under the tension between the public performances demanded by ideology and the private passions that remain hidden.

This duality translates into soft, body-focused knitwear that shifts between concealment and exposure. Silhouettes are close and fluid, using layering and transparency to suggest what cannot be openly expressed — intimacy held just beneath the surface.

The collection explores techniques including tubular knitting, dubied knitting, embossing, felting, and heat press printing — each process translating how identity is not performed outwardly but carried inwardly, revealed only through texture, touch, and subtle transformation.