VV Su

VV Su

Collection

I'M BLIND, BUT I HAVE OCD OF COLOR-MATCHING

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Video: Quote from the designer "I want this video to show how the visually impaired community is an active member of the city. They are traveling all the time and in all places with confidence in their heart."
The story behind this title starts with Jeremy, my only high school interviewee, he told me how even he is blind, but he has OCD of Color-matching.

STATEMENT

With 300 pages of interview transcripts and hours of interview footage as references, this collection aims to educate: eliminate stereotypes towards visually impaired groups and show a multi-angle and in-depth image of the group. How can we re-interpret fashion, this most visual form of expression,  into a message carrier of the visually impaired community is the core of our design challenge. Since last September, we have worked with 7 visually impaired individuals across 3 countries (the US, Canada, China), career varies from doctor / therapist / influencer / ice hockey player /  drag queen / students. 
The collection also aims to incorporates technology as medium to communicate information (text/video/audio) to the audience in future stage. Due to the complexity of this system, the thesis is the very beginning of a bigger picture, how to establish the "interaction" is what we will develop in the future as we accumulate more experience. 
Some significant discoveries based on our conversations with the interviewee:
Video: Click to hear from Dr. Yang Zhen
Video: Click to hear from Britnney Ellis, aka "Blind Beauty"

Blind people do SEE! Blind people do SEE! Blind people do SEE! Blind people do SEE!

Most of the Blind community are "legally blind,"which means the majority still have different levels of vision left, such as light perception and can see color.
Video: Click to hear from Clement, aka "The Visually impaired Bitch"
Video: Click to hear from Ezekiel, aka "Blind Gay Latino"

They like colors!

Especially bright neon colors, but this can vary from individuals.
Video: Click to hear from Clement, aka "The Visually impaired Bitch"
Video: Click to hear from Britnney Ellis, aka "Blind Beauty"

They have a life/They enjoy life!

They embrace fashion, makeup, skincare, coffee making, "watching" movies, doing sports, etc.
Video: Click to hear from Jeremy, High school, Blind Ice Hockey Player
Video: Click to hear from Jeremy, High school, Blind Ice Hockey Player

Blindness is not that away from everyone.

All it takes is one accident.
Video: Click to hear from Ezrick Marinez, young independent impaired Dominican College Student
Video: Click to hear from Dr. Yang Yong Qian, Former President of the Association for the Blind in Henan Province
Image: We are thrilled to see even the beginning of the research is very difficult due to the pandemic and the fact that we need to step out to our comfort zoom and to network with a group that we aren't familiar with at all before, but now as we are building our network, we have dig into more and more exciting individuals and stories that the society ignored. With the progression in the research, two questions are hanging on the back of our mind: 
Image: Can fashion hold a "concrete/objective" meaning to become a part of the solution? 

Can garments we wear daily become the platform to carry messages to educate the mind through design X technology?

As the core thinking of this collection, these two questions run through our entire design process and help us determine and firm many design choices. Through this collection, we have two goals.

First, educate the general audience about the visually impaired group and showcase them a multi-angle, rich image of the group instead of the stereotypical sad and pity image. Second, we want to show how fashion can be a part of the solution. With hard work, we can tie humanitarian issues with ready-to-wear. 
Image: Keywords: Interviewees' Characteristics/ Weather-Reversibility/ Blurred vision/ Vision is not objective
Special thanks to:
Image: Ezrick Marinez |" Young Independent Impaired Dominican College Student" | NYC
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Ezekiel | "Blind Gay Latino" | NYC
Image: Britnney Ellis | "Blind Beauty" | Baltimore
Image: Clement  | " The Blind Drag Queen Sienna Blaze ka The Visually Impaired Bitch Clement!" | Vancouver
Image: Yang Yong Qian | Blind Senior Doctor. Former President of the Association for the Blind in Henan Province | China
Image: Yang Zhen  | Blind Doctor in China Guangzhou Province | China
Image: Jeremy  | High School Blind Ice Hockey Player | NYC
Ron Schankin  | New York Metro Blind Hockey Coach | NYC
Image: Scan it for more insides of this Project

Bio

VV Su, currently a senior fashion design student from Parsons. During the 4 years, her most significant growth is transforming from using fashion to focus on environmental protection and social problems from purely conceptual level to practicalism, including but not limited to experiments and practices from these aspects: materials, design methods, and new systems. One can intuitively find that her discussion's core has always been directed towards rights, equality, sustainability, humanitarian issue, etc. Besides school projects, she had made PPE for local health care providers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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