THE WHITE PROJECT: BUILD-A-BEST-FRIEND.EXE
November - December 2019
Ultrasuede and cotton corset top and distressed ruffle skirt made using ultrasuede and cotton sponsored by TORAY® with handmade jewelry and embroidered detailing
Mask created and sculpted in collaboration with fine artist Jennifer Yun Chen-Tu
I came to London alone when I was 17 for university, and during my first year I felt isolated and confused because of how different my day-to-day life had become. The concept of this project draws on my feelings of alienation by looking at pop culture tales of inventors creating or manipulating their own
companions such as in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Frankenstein, and the Phantom of The Opera, and building a
character dressed in white as my own best friend.
Throughout all these tales, the one unmistakeably consistent plot twist is that these creators’ companions take on a life of their own and their owners are always unable to control them - as they say, life always finds a way and chaos eventually ensues.
