MUSEUM OBJECTS BY LINA YU

Lina Yu  

Lina Yu is an emerging fashion designer with a playful approach in creating fashion artefacts focusing on interactivity and discursivity. This year she has specialised in knitwear, particularly in the nuanced exploration of machine knit, pushing the possibilities of texture, colour, tension and the many other affordances of this medium.  

Drawing from an artistic framework, Lina’s work recontextualises non-fashion objects and playfully challenges conventional fashion paradigms. With a focus on creating a tactile and visual experience, her textile language is enhanced through voluminous scale and silhouettes that extend beyond the body. Her current trajectory points towards a design philosophy that has sensory wearer experience strongly embedded in the design process and outcomes.  

Museum Objects  

Museum Objects is an immersive sensory collection that interrogates the confines of conventional observation of fashion in the museum. This collection aims to realign spectator disposition and take you on an immersive sensory journey that invites individuals to interact with fashion artefacts in intimate and novel ways. With a focus on compression, stretch, movement, sound, comfort and playfulness, Museum Objects is a dissolution of museum apathy  

The advanced knitwear techniques and digital print processes create lenticular textiles that demand to be experienced rather than passively observed. Through the experimentation of tension and blending fibres, the knitwear enhances the overall sensory engagement, transforming each garment into a dynamic and interactive piece.