Redress Design Award Hong Kong 2012 Semi-Finalist, Kitty N. Wong 「Redress 設計大賽」香港2012準決賽者 - 黃雅婷

Hello everyone, I am Kitty N Wong and I graduated from Ryans University in Canada. In university, I got a chance to volunteer on a farm in Southern France and through that experience I was able to see how much work, time and effort goes into planting and farming. So because of that experience, everytime I make something new, when I am expose to all these beautiful materials, natural materials like silk and wool and cotton, I will think about all the time and effort that goes into making them. I think it's such a waste that all these time and effort will be wasted if we, as designers, don't use the full potentials of these materials. So I am very passionate about using zero-waste techniques and up-cycling so that's why sustainable fashion is so important to me. My inspiration, it revolves around the theme of memory and forgetting. I have always been fascinated by the furial nature of memories and I recently learn that everytime we think of an old memory, it gets recreated in our brains. So everytime when we think about it, it becomes more augmented. So it was a really romantic idea that memories are such a integral part of our personality. I am really passionate about what I have made, and I am very passionate about sustainable living and I think it extends to my work. So as a designer, I really think it's important that we design using eco-friendly technique. I think that the fashion industry, especially here in Hong Kong, if more designers like myself, who are dedicated t