Kasie Lung
Fashion Design BDes
Ryerson University
Specialisms: Apparel / Fashion Technology / Textile Innovation/Textile Art
Location: Toronto, Canada
Kasie Lung
First Name: Kasie
Last Name: Lung
Specialisms: Apparel / Fashion Technology / Textile Innovation/Textile Art
Sectors: Fashion/Textiles/Accessories / Fashion/Textiles/Accessories / Fashion/Textiles/Accessories
My Location: Toronto, Canada
University / College: Ryerson University
Course / Program Title: Fashion Design BDes
About
Kasie Lung is a Toronto Metropolitan University Fashion Design graduate and multidisciplinary creative specializing in apparel design, 3D / digital design, and wearable technology. Her work bridges design, research, and innovation, with a focus on human-centered design, adaptive fashion, and material exploration. Kasie’s experience in hospitality uniform design has allowed her to collaborate with numerous global clients—including acclaimed restaurants and five-star hotels and resorts across North America, Europe, and the Middle East—creating functional, head-to-toe uniforms worn daily by staff worldwide. In the 3D / digital design space, Kasie is professionally trained in Clo3D. She has received professional training from Clo3D specialists and has completed the Clo3D Virtual Fashion Design Certificate program through Parsons School of Design. Her most recent design research and wearable technology project, Folded Technologies, explores the intersection of fashion, technology, and kinetics, reimagining how modular and sustainable textile and apparel design can be applied to everyday wear. Her work has been recognized by various institutes and organizations such as Logistik Unicorp in the “Ready To Take Off” Uniform Design Student Contest 2021; Kent State University in the Fashion X Tech Hackathon 2020; Fashion Zone in the Ryerson Innovation Student Experience (RISE) Summer 2020 virtual incubation program; and the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) in the 2019 undergraduate student exhibition.
Folded Technologies is an undergraduate thesis project that explores the intersection of fashion, technology, and kinetics. Currently, kinetic fashion is largely seen in the couture, costume, and performance wear industries however, this project focuses on how the concept can be applied to everyday modular fashion. The objective is to demonstrate how kinetic folding techniques can create pleated fabrics that can be combined with specialized technologies and materials in order to create transformation and motion pleats, which can then be applied for practical purposes, such as functionality, accessibility, inclusivity, and/or sustainability. The project concept was developed through an iterative research ideation and exploration process involving practice-based research that analyzed various technologies, materials, and folding / pleating techniques. Subsequently, the research was creatively demonstrated through a series of textile samples and garments that incorporate transformation or motion pleating using one of the three methods examined during the research phase: transforming pleats using rare earth magnets; moving pleats using a thread and motor system; and moving pleats using a shape memory alloy wire (or muscle wire) system. Check out www.foldedtechnologies.com for the complete project details.