JUN JY HoNG

PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN

MFA FASHION DESIGN AND SOCIETY

Unfinished Creative Work:

Fine artist Andrea Lopez Garcia’s drawing book was the starting point for her collection. His drawings represent the various lines and shapes that form the core definitions of the object and its iconography.

The idea of transforming such an artistic process into a sartorial form involved serious stylistic experiments. She created a variety of deconstructions of fully constructed jackets and overlaid multiple lines via digitized images of deconstructed garments to find elements to correlate stylistic multiplicity. The final pieces at might appear as if they are incomplete but are in fact complete, and are executed with innovative shapes, lines, and details.

“Unfinished creative work” encourages the audience to imagine and redefine the notion of conventional sartorial forms. The final product leads to the further continuation of the creative process and in some ways initiates more powerful messages than the final work themselves.

Jun, who designs based in New York, is a sartorial researcher and works hard to infuse contemporary aesthetics into practical and commercial form. She hasgraduated from the Fashion Design and Society MFA program at Parsons the New School for Design. In her work Jun pushes the boundaries of classical minimalist design through manipulation of contemporary patterns and draping with a view to finding new lines.

She has interned and worked on projects with Marc by Marc Jacobs, the Donna Karan Collection, Araks, Olivier Theyskens for Theyskens Theory, Diane von Furstenberg, the Banana Republic, Saks Fifth Avenue, J. Crew, Ann Klein, and others. Her works have been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, GQ, Bite, The Last Magazine, the Providence Journal, and in numerous international publications. Jun holds a B.A. of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and has taken a summer course at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK.