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This is my final project at the University of the Arts London (UAL), Chelsea College of Art, Graduate Diploma of Textile Design course 2020, which will be on our virtual graduation showcased, July 24th, 2020.

Sublime, on the contrary to beauty, is formless and “a magnitude that is equal only to itself” (Kant 2002: 134). Burke defines sublime as 'terror’ because of the unknown and unfamiliarity. Designing with sublime principles can trigger the user to ‘investigate’, they will “spend a great deal of time contemplating, sensing, and experiencing it.” (Harper, 2018) that results in a delight and new improved insight. This will linger in thoughts and memory, pulling them to revisit time and time to get aesthetic nourishment, therefore it wouldn’t be thrown away and kept in the loop which makes the object ‘durable’.

Currently, the world is going through a pandemic, therefore access to modern technology is constricted for the majority of us. I personally, choose to go back into traditional methods for this creation. This unprecedented time certainly reminds us all to slow down and be more conscious of each of our steps, to value things we never thought to value before. I believe this would increase our appreciation to slow fashion but also traditional hand-crafts and arts that pay attention to details and made with the sentiment. By utilizing unused plastics that I can find around my household, I experiment with traditional crafts such as smocking, gathering, and shirring technique with only minimal materials and tools; thread and needle.

I choose to create a wedding dress as a symbol of these rare circumstances where plenty of weddings are being canceled due to the pandemic. From another perspective, wedding dresses sometimes preserved as heirlooms, to be passed down generation to generation. They’re only worn once in a lifetime but kept for the value and aesthetic. The visual appearance of the wedding dress itself could take them back to relive their most phenomenal moments time and time again, hence aesthetically sustainable.

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