YVONNE WANG: SECOND SKIN

SøEdited Team
SøBeauty Director / Article:  Astrid Kearney
SøEditor-in-Chief: Chris Saint Sims 
​SøFashion Director: Savannah Barthorpe​​​
​Photography: Becca Geden 

Few emerging designers move as fluently across disciplines as Yvonne Wang. A graduate of BA Fashion Knit at Central Saint Martins, her practice refuses to settle in one register, shifting from art-referenced knitwear to deconstructed outerwear to provocatively ceremonial bodywork with the ease of someone who has truly mastered her craft.
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Her silver knit, developed as part of an Alexander McQueen project, opens with intention. Drawing inspiration from the artworks of  artist Uddenberg, Wang focuses on “the expressive tension in his creations ,translating abstract visual languages into tangible designs, using texture contrasts and structural deformations to craft disorienting visual effects.” Through deliberate adjustments of knit density and fabric layering, the work ruptures conventional visual expectation thus inviting the audience to perceive “the intersection of art and fashion in subtle visual fluctuations.”

The brown windbreaker originates somewhere quieter. “A nostalgic wander through the 1990s” , classic trench coat silhouettes extracted, decomposed and restructured into something simplified yet wholly distinctive. Screen printing on yarn meets leather-oriented fabric transformation, the result an integration of “retro aesthetics with contemporary design sense” that feels both rooted and entirely now.

The black jersey piece moves into more charged territory. Exploring the fusion of flocking and knitwear - stretchy, considered, and ceremonial all at once. The figure is enclosed in something that reads as both second skin and ritual dress, the trailing transparent hems dissolving as they fall. Research on embroidery craftsmanship surfaces in the delicate glove designs, “blending decorative art with wearability” - a tenderness sitting quietly against the graphic sharpness of the piece.

This is a figure who has chosen, entirely, how they are seen.

Dolls in a Row

​Designer @xoosu_s — Yvonne Wang
Photography @beccageden
Hair & Makeup Designer @astridkearneymakeup
Makeup Assistant @makedujour
Model @princesscyberspace
illustrations: @dollsinarow
Set @mgjlawrence 
Studio @dccstudios
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Dolls in a Row

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