Caitlyn Lim
Fashion Design BFA
Parsons School of Design
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Womenswear / Genderless / Art Direction
My location: New York, United States
Caitlyn Lim
First Name: Caitlyn
Last Name: Lim
University / College: Parsons School of Design
Course / Program: Fashion Design BFA
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Womenswear / Genderless / Art Direction
My Location: New York, United States
About
Caitlyn Lim is a designer and director based in New York, recognized for her multidisciplinary approach shaped by a foundation in fine arts. This background informs her creation of fashion experiences that dissolve traditional boundaries, weaving together film, performance, and production design. Collaboration sits at the heart of her practice, opening up fashion as a narrative medium that stretches into expansive realms of storytelling and world-building.Guided by the influence of surrealist art, she gives equal weight to the craftsmanship of her designs and the environments they inhabit. Her work constructs realities that are at once uncanny and radically familiar, yet elusive in definition.She views fashion as a vessel that preserves the human touch through craft and materiality. By documenting the past and safeguarding memories, it holds stories of those who came before us, creating connections that transcend the limits of time and space.
'remember me when i leave' is an exploration of the fluid concept of belonging, questioning what ‘home’ means in a world where physical spaces fade, but memories endure. Drawing from the sentimentality of lost and forgotten possessions, it reflects on emotional attachment, revealing what we cherish and what we let slip away. Inspired by the complexities of a fragmented identity existing across separate places, the collection examines how we reconcile our past with our present within a liminal realm. Using a dollhouse as a metaphor for an identity rooted in the definite suburban structures of the past, now distorting and transitioning into the ambiguity of the present, the collection explores the tension between conformity and individuality. Familiar garments evoke estrangement through distorted silhouettes, while fabrications inspired by domestic settings reintroduce comfort and nostalgia, illustrating the journey of self-discovery within shifting, impermanent spaces of memory.
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