Celestial Reverie
Jinling Li
Fashion Design (School of Graduate Studies)
About this Item
- Title
- Celestial Reverie
- Date
- 2025
- Summary/Artist Statement
- Jinling Li is a Chinese fashion designer who earned a Fashion Design MFA at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work integrates futurism with a utilitarian edge. Jinling's designs focus on precise construction and material innovation, transforming rigid three-dimensional structures into wearable forms. She navigates the space between ready-to-wear and avant-garde designs, balancing functionality with bold, structured silhouettes.
- About This Collection:
- "Celestial Reverie" reinterprets the biblical vision of celestial machinery through the lens of science fiction and modern science. Initially inspired by the film Contact, in which the protagonist encounters an alien civilization through a spherical transport device, the form echoes the "wheel within a wheel" described in the Book of Ezekiel. Through architectural silhouettes, layered rotating elements, and a restrained yet striking color palette, the collection visualizes the intersection of myth, technology, and futurism, exploring the boundaries between the known, the imagined, and the undiscovered.
- Course/Degree Information
- 2025 Fashion Design MFA graduate thesis collection. Presented on September 9, 2025 at 'Act 5: Fashion Design MFA Showcase.'
- M.F.A. in Fashion Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York 2025.
- Department: Fashion Design
- Related Materials
- Website
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Act 5: Fashion Design MFA 2025 Graduate Showcase - Official Trailer
- Rights
- In Copyright
- The copyright for this work is held by its author/creator(s). Usage of this material beyond what is permitted by copyright law must first be cleared with the rights-holder(s). This work has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for this work and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: fd_mfa_000057
Citation
Li, J. (2025). Celestial Reverie. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661558
Li, Jinling. Celestial Reverie. 2025. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661558
Li, Jinling. "Celestial Reverie." FIT Digital Repository, 2025. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661558