With an MA in design from the Royal college of Art and a BA in womenswear from Central Saint Martins, Yvonne Lin is a womenswear designer carving out her niche with an innate and intimate understanding of the creative as an all-encompassing state of being.
Speaking through many forms of visual language, Lin incorporates her love of theatre, performance and the body into her mastery of the female form; within which each piece combines an element of powerful elegance with conscious modernism. Laster pattern cutting and structured coats meet billowing layers of dreamy draping and the contrast of heavy fabrics against exposed skin.
Through a compilation of accessories, footwear, installation art, stills and film, the Chinese-Canadian designer, who grew up in a small town in China, brings to life her empowered silhouettes while playing homage to both the feminine and masculine, honouring the delicate while acknowledging the indestructible.
Her graduate collection, as pictured below, comes from her inspiration of the latin words Vulnus Cura which mean βto wound and to healβ as she seeks to confront the human emotions that require us to mend the parts of us that have become fragmented and fractured.
Minimal to the eye yet deeply meaningful in her approach, Lin continues to evolve through an array of multi-disciplinary processes and seeks to stay true to the confluence of contrasting cultures and realities that influence her everyday.
Website ylin.co.uk | Location, London | Graduation Year, 2017
PHOTOS: YVONNE LIN
