This spread documents an early stage of Design Direction I, where I began reworking jeans as a top. It moves from physical journaling to digital—holding prototypes, sketches, swatches, and the process.

While trying on clothes as a kid, I liked to put things on in unconventional ways. This shows in my design process as I use a skirt design to make a dress

This direction moves beyond interpreting finjan—I become both maker and surface. Inspired by my grandmother and the finjan ritual, the stain becomes the fortune

This direction explores adornment as armor—rooted in the richness of my culture. Constructed through repetition, density, and labor,
materials are pierced, drilled, and hand-assembled into a protective structure