Collaboration Task Initial Ideas

For the collaboration project, we had to work in a pair to create a piece of work, therefore this class session we had to choose who we wanted to work with. 

My partner is Olga, she comes from Poland and what’s exciting part was, she’s the same with my progression route - fashion design. She loves design, sewing, style clothes and outfits, and also wants to connect her life with the fashion industry. Being a designer with her own brand, or a fashion stylist, a fashion manager, a fashion photographer, or a fashion show director were always the things she wants to do in the future. It can be seen how passionate she was in fashion! 

After introducing and knowing each other, we had started to brainstorm the ideas. As I had mentioned before, our common development direction was fashion design. So the first thing that popped into our mind was, we grew up in different countries, Olga is European and I am Asian, raised and grew up in different ways. We had also been exposed to many people and things which affected us...However that is one thing we both are passionate about - Fashion. So we just wanted to start with this point and developed our project.

Olga with her classmates photo:

Me and my classmates photo:

By the cause of the enthusiasm for fashion design, it brings us to the same university and with the same group, this is how fashion associates us together. This has inspired us to think about various connected expressions. Two lives, but striding forward for the same dream.  In addition, due to the traditional thoughts and culture of Hong Kong, I do believe in fate, there are invisible connections between people, everything must have a reason when you meet someone, hence I used the similar concept into the project. 

We had considered that we are also the only protagonists in our life, therefore we magnified this point and focused on ourselves, maybe the face or the action... still didn't decided yet and need to continues develop with the draft. Here were some basic drafts we had done.