Moon Chang

STARTING FROM MOON CHANG'S PERSONAL STORY, WHEN SHE HAD PTSD, THE DEATH MOMENT. TO DEAL WITH THIS, MOON TENDS TO GO BACK TO CHILDHOOD, ALSO ON THE OTHER WORD “BEING CUTE”. SHE USES CUTENESS TO SURVIVE THE DEATH SITUATION. HYBRID BEAUTY II: FLASHBACK HAS EVOLVED INTO THE IDEA OF USING “VULNERABILITY AND CUTENESS” AS THE PROTECTIVE MECHANISM. HYBRID BEAUTY II: FLASHBACK FACES THE SHADOW OF OVERCOMING TRAUMA, IT SEEMS YOU OVERCOME, BUT IT KEEPS BRINGING THE FLASHBACK LIKE A NIGHTMARE. IRONICALLY, BEING VULNERABLE IS ANOTHER WAY TO OVERCOME TRAUMA. THE BINARY PERCEPTION ILLUSTRATES THE CONTRAST OF THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE LIGHT OF PURITY AND THE DARKNESS OF SHADOW, DEAD AND ALIVE, AND THE FANTASY AND THE REALITY. THIS DUAL AESTHETIC EVOLVES INTO THE IMAGINARY AND DARK FAIRYTALE.
MOON CHANG’S SIGNATURE TECHNIQUES BY REINTERPRETING TRADITIONAL COUTURE AND MILLINERY TECHNIQUES OF THE CUTE FEATURES, SUCH AS A RIBBON, RUFFLES, AND FLOWERS WERE ALSO USED IN THIS COLLECTION MORE IN BRUTAL BUT ALSO DELICATE WAYS. TO VISUALIZE THE FLASHBACK, MOON CHANG APPLIED MANY DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES, SUCH AS FOLDING AND LAYERING TO BUILD UP THE STRUCTURE, IN CONTRAST, CUT AND SLASH WAS USED TO SHOW THE INNER LAYERS. COUNTLESS SMALL ELEMENTS LIKE FLOWERS AND RIBBONS WERE BUILT UP AS OVERSIZED DRESSES BY KNOTTINGS TO EXPRESS THE FLASHBACK SHOWING THE COMPLETE OR PARTIAL IMAGES OF TRAUMA BY THE OBJECTIFICATION OF HUMAN'S BODY, IT EMPOWERS VULNERABILITY TO OVERCOME THE FLASHBACK.
ESPECIALLY IN THIS COLLECTION, MOON CHANG WANTS TO SHOW THE CONCEPT OF “BLACK ON BLACK”, BY GENERATING THE DIFFERENT SHADES AND TONES OF BLACK, TRANSPARENT TO OPAQUE BLACK, AND GLOSS INTO MATTE. THE LAYERS OF TRANSPARENT MATERIALS HIGHLIGHT THE SHADES OF MEMORIES AND DARKNESS, AND BUILD THE OVERSIZE AND BLOOMING SHAPE. THE CONTRASTS OF LIGHT AND HEAVY WEIGHTS FABRICS SHOW THE BURDEN OF TRAUMA AND THE PROCESS OF OVERCOMING THROUGH STIR OF THE SENSES OF VISUAL AND TOUCH. ALSO, LAYERING PINK OVER BLACK ALSO BRINGS THE VULNERABLE PINK OUT BY SLASHING BLACK. THERE ARE MANY HEART CENTERED DESIGNS TO SHOW THE TRAUMA ENGRAVED IN THE HEART, MEANING EMOTION. ALSO, BRINGING THE CONCEPT OF FUNCTIONAL DECORATION AS A PROTECTION TOOL TO SHOW BEAUTY AND VULNERABILITY TO BECOME STRONG. MOON CHANG REINTERPRETED THE “BRA” IN FUNCTIONAL DECORATIVE DESIGNS, AS SYNONYMOUS WITH BURDEN AND TRAUMA BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A LIGHTWEIGHT AND FUNCTIONAL GARMENT, BUT WHEN YOU WEAR IT THE WHOLE DAY, IT FEELS HEAVY AND LEAVES MARKS ON YOUR BODY, AND EXPERIMENTED WITH UNDERGARMENTS THAT BECOME OUTERWEAR.
MOON CHANG ALSO COLLECTED ALL THE SCRAPS FROM THE PREVIOUS READY TO WEAR COLLECTION TO CREATE THE COUTURE COLLECTION, WHICH CONVEYS THE CONCEPT OF FLASHBACK OF MEMORIES AND TRAUMAS. THE FLASHBACK OF SUSTAINABILITY IS NEWLY FOUNDED IN TIMELESS MATERIALS AND DESIGNS.