(Un) Professional Fabulous
Genevieve Zhuoran Li
Fashion Design (School of Graduate Studies)
About this Item
- Title
- (Un) Professional Fabulous
- Date
- 2025
- Summary/Artist Statement
- Genevieve Zhuoran Li is a Chinese fashion designer redefining silhouettes through deconstructive construction and gender-fluid tailoring. Her work blends post-minimalism and subversive prints to explore psychology, individuality, and societal dynamics. With a strong foundation in patternmaking, she integrates historical and contemporary elements to challenge traditional power structures. Genevieve holds a BFA from SCAD and an MFA from FIT, both in fashion design, excelling in team leadership, emerging technologies, and cross-disciplinary collaboration while adapting to evolving industry trends.
- About This Collection:
- "(Un) Professional Fabulous" draws inspiration from the often-overlooked issue of implicit bias in society, exploring how workplace dress codes reflect and reinforce societal stereotypes. By examining gender norms and the influence of professional judgment based on one's attire, Genevieve Li deconstructs traditional officewear, blending masculine and feminine elements to challenge fixed ideas of gender and professionalism. Through sharp tailoring, unexpected fabric contrasts, and subversive graphic prints, the collection reveals the unspoken rules that shape perceptions of identity and appropriateness in professional settings.
- 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
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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_000071
Citation
Li, G. Z. (2025). (Un) Professional Fabulous. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661761
Li, Genevieve Zhuoran. (Un) Professional Fabulous. 2025. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661761
Li, Genevieve Zhuoran. "(Un) Professional Fabulous." FIT Digital Repository, 2025. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/661761