I WANT TO TELL ABOUT JEWELLERY BY YUXI LIU (ZONA)

Yuxi Liu (Zona) 

Yuxi Liu (Zona) is a Chinese-born, Melbourne-based fashion designer. She has previously shown at the 2022 Melbourne Fashion Week Student Runway and 2023 Global Victoria Fashion Showcase, she was also a nominee for the 2023 State and National Graduate of the Year Award (GOTYA) by Design Insititute of Australia (DIA).  

Her work is heavily focused on the attention to design details, quality, and constructions. Through constant experiments on blending highly refined garment-making techniques with her unique design visions, she is exploring the possibilities of embedding sentimental approaches into the making process.  

I Want to Tell about Jewellery

This Master of Fashion Design collection investigates cultural and highly personal sentimental value systems surrounding items of jewellery, through worn acts of intimacy and occasional revelation. The research was based on personal jewellery-related memories and the use of both the performance design method and object design method, to re-imagine and re-capture the past while creating new fashion innovations.  

During my research and design process, I recalled memories of Jewellery - the most iconic one would be from my grandma, she used to wear her thick, gold bracelet but covered it with an old, dull scarf to protect it from thieves.