Alli Park
Fashion Design and Management BSc
Cornell University
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Womenswear / Formal/Couture / Fashion Illustration
My location: Atlanta, United States
Alli Park
First Name: Alli
Last Name: Park
University / College: Cornell University
Course / Program: Fashion Design and Management BSc
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Womenswear / Formal/Couture / Fashion Illustration
My Location: Atlanta, United States
Website: Click To See Website
About
Alli H Park is a young designer based in New York, NY with a B.S. in Fashion Design from Cornell University. Born and raised near Atlanta, GA, she employs fashion design as an artistic medium for often subversive messages. These messages are drawn from first- and secondhand life experiences, and focus on various intersectional topics championing mental health, gender, race, and underprivileged voices. Her design process aims to maximize synergy between cutting-edge design technology, realistic sustainability for the fashion industry, and traditional craft methods to pursue ethical growth and lasting fashion that subverts the banal cliché of "effortless beauty" by being meaningful, intentional, and—ultimately—effortful. “Embrace effortful beauty: the perfect truth is gained by clawing through the dirt and the muck of hypocrisy, control, and social acceptance, the opiate of the masses.”
Inspired by the cyclical relationship between feminine freedom and lingerie, SECOND SKIN is a 10 look anti-fashion womenswear collection depicting the story of the "Ingénue Sex Object," a young woman who realizes her lack of self-worth is a result of sexual victimization and manipulation. Provoked by her growing contempt for the banality of misogynistic convention, she begins to seek real and unconditional meaning. Made from largely found objects and secondhand materials, the collection heavily features gloves and ruching (to represent skin topography) as motifs and confronts dressing conventions and nudity of the female body. Motivated by Naomi Wolf's writings in The Beauty Myth (1990) as well as first and secondhand anecdotes, SECOND SKIN aims to subvert the dehumanizing norms which contribute to female objectification and depicts a dynamic, perpetual struggle for autonomy, suffused by love, lust, betrayal, rejection, and alienation in the truth.
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