Mingfei Xu
Textile Design
Winchester School of Art
Specialisms: Textiles - Print / Fashion Illustration / Fashion Merchandising
Location: London, United Kingdom
Mingfei Xu
First Name: Mingfei
Last Name: Xu
Specialisms: Textiles - Print / Fashion Illustration / Fashion Merchandising
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Winchester School of Art
Course / Program Title: Textile Design
About
I'm textile print design undergrad. I had experience in jobs like modeling and fashion illustration, also working as a part time drawing teacher and freelancer.
A lush series of my watercolour works where fruits blush and flowers unfurl, each stroke a quiet metaphor for the tangled beauty of human longing. A jubilant celebration of sexual liberation.
Competitions
Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025
This projects is about the modern propaganda from socail media and society socail rules make us feels tongue tied a lot of the time. The willing for independent thinking is fading and our free will is disappearing like the falling tulips, the far right spraying all the toxic content on the X and covers all the positivities like the spikes in our eyes and it is interference of our free will. Love, hope, peace is dying but fear, anger and aggression is raising on the X.
Lace on Silk Collection—where elegance meets the otherworldly. Inspired by of the Alien movie, these designs blend intricate lace patterns with the luxurious opacity of silk. Perfect for those who adore the timeless charm of lace but prefer the sophistication of non-sheer fabrics. Crafted for shirts and dresses, this fabric offers: Sumptuous Silk: A smooth, soft texture that drapes beautifully and feels heavenly against the skin. Versatility: Ideal for creating statement pieces that transition effortlessly from day to evening. Celebrate your love for lace without compromise. Dare to stand out with a fabric as unique as your style.
As an international BA textile design student who grew up in Communist China and now lives in the UK, I have personally experienced different forms of propaganda. In this final major project, I want to explore how propaganda shapes societies and emotions and how it affects me as an audience through fashion textile print design. Propaganda, whether Eastern or Western, uses bold imagery with high-contrast colours and emotional messages to control public thought. In China, I witnessed state-driven public political speech and activities under censorship and misleading influencers online, causing Chinese people to hate and anger towards foreign countries and LGBTQ+ groups and the fear of having an opinion on politics. At the same time, in the West, I experienced curated freedom and rising disguised far-right hate posts on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), causing attacks towards minority groups. Both worlds reveal that propaganda always seeks control, often manipulating identity and emotions. Both the Chinese government and X have made me fear how and who is using propaganda, and I want to warn people before they fall into the wrong hands. Inspired by these experiences, I have created this collection through bold, symbolic colours to reflect authority, revolution, anxiety, and attention-seeking, and explore both surrealism and realism with a watercolour illustration to tell a story of how authority controls people through voice and emotional power of national storytelling to commands public action. Through these prints, I aim to raise awareness about how propaganda operates across cultures and encourage independent thinking, using fashion textiles as a medium to provoke thought and resistance. In the end, I hope everyone can be careful with the information they've received from social media, think twice before action, and be more considerate of people who are "different”, and be kind to each other.
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