Hello There!

I’m Nicole Louie a 2nd year student at Parsons

the New School for Design! My major is fashion 

design and I admire many designers like 

Alexander Wang, Rick Owens, Phillip Lim, 

Helmut Lang, Alexander McQueen, and many 

more. 

During the fashion orientation, on August 24th, for 2nd year students and after all the information about the resources Parsons offers, a friend and I teamed up to create a garment out of paper. Using materials like newspaper, paper bags, and napkins to make our piece. Created in two hours, our idea began from a sketch while playing a game similar to the exquisite corpse. Soon after we began creating shapes from newspaper and layering them to create a voluminous skirt. The top shows a repeating word and face from a newspaper and the belt was made from napkins. We also created a neck accessory with a flower detail by manipulating newspaper and napkins. Our final garment took the stage along with other groups' work.

For this project I analyzed then tried to understand the role of a memory.

To do so I recreated an event that has happened to most people before. 

I created my memory by taking a pair of old shoes and suspending them 

with dowels. I then began to stretch chewed gum over the dowels and 

attached it so it looked like the shoes were in motion. I finished by 

combining dirt, black acrylic paint, and matte medium to create an 

asphalt-like texture on the base. 

Photos taken with iphone4