Mengyi Audrey Hu

Grey Sheep

Location

london / United Kingdom

University

london college of fashion

Graduation year

2011

Contact

Mengyi Audrey Hu is a fashion designer hailing from China, based in London Shoreditch.
The recent graduate of London College of Fashion has been creative intern for Viktor & Rolf and Julien Macdonald.
Interested in fabric manipulation,old craft and traditional techniques, she creates eccentric but wearable garments. She believes design is not only about creating flawless objects for adornment, it should be a media to express a designers' philosophy and world view. She is striving to seek uniqueness, innovation daring and non-conformist designs by combining special use of fabrics and exaggerated minimal silhouettes.

Latest Collection

Crossroad Blues

Mengyi Audrey Hu's latest collection for autumn/winter is inspired by the concept of counter-conformity. Small Trades Workwear meets the ritual adornment of West African Masquerade. Initially began with an interest in exploring and excavations. She was intrigued by how the explorers defines their "ritual" to traverse for the purpose of discovery, encounter and interact with the alien environment, then survive, morph and evolve. Here is where Western Masqueraders tap in. Originally the ritual wear was a decorative approach towards of collection. Aesthetically it breaks up the consistency of utility wear's minimal lines and silhouette. Although initially researching masquerade as a contrasting element to the utility wear, it became increasingly more apparent there were similar characteristics, in terms of tradition and functionality, psychologically and socially. Hu has taken garments that are normally the preserve of workers and enriched them by incorporating them in the collection.