Heartstring

Peichen Zhou
Fashion Design (School of Graduate Studies)

About this Item

Title
Heartstring
Contributor Names
Zhou, Peichen (Creator, Designer)
Date
2025
Summary/Artist Statement
As a creative fashion designer, I create original work combining art and human body science. Inspired by medicine, realism, and the human structure, my designs respect life. Combining artistic abstraction with a solid basis in pragmatic, helpful applications, I often use non-fabric materials in my creative process to create visually striking designs that push fashion boundaries and welcome invention. I also work using three-dimensional printing technologies. I studied fashion design at the Rhode Island School of Design for my BFA and the Fashion Institute of Technology for my MFA.
About This Collection:
Inspired by human blood vessels and prominent bones, the "Heartstring" collection is produced with fluidity and color as main ideas. I reduced this theme as much as possible, then turned it into clothes. Ultimately illustrating the homogeneity of human beings, the objects in this series use the human body as a canvas, inside out, and wear the biological tissue under the skin on the outside. The clothing has a sense of breathing and a visual sense of blood fluidity through some knitted elements. Discover the subtle idea and balance between reality and abstraction, structure and fluidity.
Type
Still Image
Moving Image
Fashion shows
Fashion photographs
Masters theses
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
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Act 5: Fashion Design MFA 2025 Graduate Showcase - Official Trailer
Rights
In Copyright
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Identifier
FIT Repository ID: fd_mfa_000061

Citation

Zhou, P. (2025). Heartstring. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661614
Zhou, Peichen. Heartstring. 2025. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661614
Zhou, Peichen. "Heartstring." FIT Digital Repository, 2025. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661614