theme park (2020)

Inspired by photographer Reiner Riedler’s Fake Holiday, which captured how people turn virtual entertainments into actual experience in variety of theme parks, the collection is a parade about showing what something wants to be and what it really feels like. In my observation, theme park is like a cult. People are drowned in the lifestyle tourism and persuades themselves to believe and enjoy in the utopia that theme parks have created.

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Reiner Riedler's Fake Holiday

The concept was showing a combination of sarcasm and contrast in Chinese society at that time, when people don’t have to wear uniforms right after the cultural revolution and everyone tried to be unique. It was a period full of hope, open and restriction at the same time.

Combined with The Last Paradise by Nicolas Righetti shot in South Korea, the designer viewed how government created stimulation and utopia for people, which underlays people's daily life.

Is South Korea a theme park as well?

Are we also lived in the theme park?

inspired from mature designers'

finishing technique

and details

So, theme park is...?

THEME PARK

IS LIKE A

CULT

Should say

a religious

ceremony...?

Materiality tryouts:

the bamboo and beach chair motifs

Inspired by the pixelated

handprinted Photo Booth background

in most theme parks and the costume shoes design.

Bring toy patterns to life by draping.

process photos

combining leisure wear with ceremonial wear

The biggest challenge in this project is that we are only permitted to use jersey fabrics and the time is very limited. In the process of creating silhouettes, jersey’s stretchy and soft quality has taught me allow fabric to flow in its way instead of forcing it to be something else. Instead of using highly saturated colors, I chose a humbler way to indicate the artificially surreal feeling that inspired from the theme park’s hand-painted photobooth, which also bridged the idea of ceremonial clothing with leisure wear at the same time. The wearers are pilgrims to the theme park cult, special way of getting into the garments is also part of the celebration.

THEME PARK SKIP