What if children designed our clothes?
Fashion can shape the way we experience and interpret the world around us. As a designer, I am interested in fashion’s emotional potential to spark curiosity, humour and connection. My graduate collection, KNIT WIT, explores childhood perception through a simple question: What if children designed our clothes?
Inspired by the way children experience everyday objects as larger, more immersive and more significant, the collection reinterprets utilitarian and military workwear through exaggerated proportions and magnified garment details. Familiar elements such as pockets, collars, ties and flaps become oversized focal points, encouraging a more playful and imaginative engagement with clothing.
Throughout the project, I experimented with screen printing, trompe l’oeil imagery and exaggerated pattern cutting to translate these ideas into contemporary womenswear. Screen-printed textiles create the illusion of knitted surfaces, while a monochromatic blue palette reinforces themes of comfort, fixation and repetition.
KNIT WIT transforms ordinary garments into opportunities for wonder, inviting viewers to look closer and reconsider the familiar. Through oversized details, playful silhouettes and immersive surface design, the collection translates childhood ways of seeing into a contemporary fashion context. It reflects my commitment to emotionally engaging, conceptually driven fashion.
