Arts Thread

my name is Xiaoya Zhang, and I am currently studying BA Fashion Design at Regent’s University London. My design direction focuses on womenswear, deconstruction, material experimentation, female body expression, and emotional expression. What interests me most about fashion is not only how clothing shapes or decorates the body, but how it can express emotion, identity, and the relationship between the female body and society. In my work, I often start from personal emotions, female experiences, and bodily feelings, then translate them into garment language through asymmetrical structures, wrapping, layering, draping, and fabric experimentation. In the future, I would like to continue researching the relationship between softness and strength in womenswear. I want to use structure and materials to express the complexity of women, including vulnerability, protection, pressure, power, and self-expression. Career-wise, after graduation I hope to work as a Design Assistant in a womenswear brand, gain real experience in collection development, and gradually grow into a womenswear designer. In the long term, I hope to develop my own independent womenswear brand.