PROJECT X Parsons present S/S 19 ‘Next in Class’ students

PROJECT X Parsons present S/S 19 ‘Next in Class’ students

Parsons School of Design and Project New York have announced its 4th edition of ‘Next in Class’ which introduced directional new talent into the fashion retail marketplace to support their growth as designers. The four designers who have been selected to showcase their designs at Project this year are:

NIHL | Neil Grotzinger’s NIHL Spring 2019 collection derives its inspiration from male figures throughout history that build their reputation out of a fictitious sense of supremacy. Through various textile manipulations, and couture embroidery techniques, this collection taps into a grey area that challenges what it means to be male. It explores qualities of borderline ephemerality and downright queerness, yet still maintains its reference to masculine culture.

RU JIN TSAI | The main idea of this collection is making the invisible visible-reveals the documentation of manufacturing process of garments and shows the conflict between makers and wearers. By combining the menswear and women’s workwear of clothing factories in developing countries, each look stands for one of the five largest clothing exporting countries.

ANNE LI | Anne’s SS’19 collection SANCT is a commentary towards bicultural confusion; a statement that it is okay to not completely fit into one culture or another, but that it is important to choose elements of each in order to create your own version of an identity.

JEONGMIN CHO | One Being as Twins and Two Different Beings as Man and Woman. The collection is noted as genderless collection which focuses on blurring the boundaries between genders. The first attempt to approach the idea of genderless was made through her thesis collection based on life experience and curiosity in the relationship between her twin brother.