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The Opposite Multi-wear Fashion Collection by Yishu Yan

The Opposite Multi-wear Fashion Collection

Silver A' Design Award Winner 2024

Scanning this fashion photograph from left to right, listeners will encounter two standing female figures of similar height and slender build, positioned against a smooth gradient background that transitions from soft silvery gray at the top to slightly warmer gray at floor level. Both figures appear to be the same model photographed twice, with hair swept up into neat topknots and faces turned in three-quarter profile, featuring refined features with neutral expressions. Beginning with the left figure, she wears a dramatic cape-like outer garment in deep blue reminiscent of twilight ocean water, featuring a distinctive texture like a grid of small raised squares creating a tactile surface that would feel bumpy and dimensional to the touch, similar to the texture of a waffle blanket. This blue cape drapes diagonally across her body from a high sculptural collar that rises to her chin, adorned with layered ruffled fabric in matching blue that feels like gathered silk or fine cotton creating soft dimensional waves. Her left arm emerges from the cape's opening wearing a cream-colored ribbed knit sleeve suggesting the soft warmth of fine merino wool, while a flowing skirt in graduated indigo extends below the cape, its pleated fabric appearing sheer and gauzy like fine chiffon that would feel whisper-light against skin. Moving to the right figure, she displays the reverse configuration of the same garment system, with the cape now showing its ivory interior surface, maintaining that same waffle-grid texture but in warm cream like freshly churned butter or vanilla ice cream. Her collar features the same dimensional ruffled treatment in pale blue-white tones. Her visible arm wears a deep teal ribbed knit sleeve in rich blue-green suggesting cool ocean depths. Both figures wear matching chunky white athletic shoes with thick soles, creating a grounded, contemporary finish. The figures stride dynamically, with legs extended and skirts flowing, suggesting captured movement frozen in time. The lighting feels soft and even, like diffused daylight through sheer curtains, illuminating all textural details without creating harsh shadows.

The Opposite, a unisex fashion knitwear collection, aims to create a new concept of modern garments with multiple wearing methods. It features the zero-cut, zero-waste, highly adaptable, flexible wearability and longevity of the design through highlighting sustainable design thinking and digital design attributes. It intends to explore the process of confrontation and cooperation between contradictory elements through the development of flexible knitted structures and changeable garment constructions.