Image research
Colour, skin, light and reflective surfaces form the project's first visual vocabulary.
Songyu Lu / Fashion Portfolio
LIQUID
SKY
A study of light, distortion and garments in motion.
202601 / Concept
From shifting light
to wearable form.
Liquid Sky translates luminous reflections, digital distortion and fluid surfaces into engineered prints and sculptural silhouettes.
Visual language
Light behaves
like a material.
Refraction / movement / chromatic blur02 / Process
Building the
image world
The project moves between photography, live digital systems and physical tests. Each translation introduces a new kind of blur.
Digital distortion
A generative image system stretches and liquefies source material into unfamiliar contours.
03 / Textile
From pixel
to print.
Cropped digital images become engineered textile placements. Scale, transparency and overlap are used to interrupt the body.
03
Material light
Photographic fragments and digital colour move through heat transfer, digital printing and fabric tests to become material surfaces. Both source images are original photographs: the aurora was captured in Iceland, and the body study records a live projection onto the designer.
04 / Form
Testing the image
around the body.
Images are first tested at body scale on paper, then translated into printed fabric to compare placement, wrapping and movement.
Look 02 / Fitting development
From placement
to resolved form.
Printed panels are placed, folded and anchored directly on the body, moving from volume tests to a resolved four-view look.
Look 03 / Form development
Subtractive cutting
/ negative space
A four-part study moving from removed space and silhouette tests to selected volumes and final form confirmation.
05 / Construction
One structure,
many ways to wear.
Three printed panels are joined through button-led fastening points, allowing one construction to wrap, fold and reconfigure across the body.
Final illustrations / resolved looks
The collection,
drawn into focus.
06 / Collection
Final collection,
campaign & projection.
Campaign / Image world
Another
Shore.
Every garment and body was photographed in camera. Backgrounds in frames 03–04 and 10–14 combine my own Iceland and Canary Islands photographs with AI compositing; the remaining environments were created through prompt-led AI image-making.
Projection / Live image
Light returns
to the body.
Projected image, garment and moving body occupy the same frame— returning the collection to the light experiments where it began.
