how do i let go make?
2025body and cloth
2024
i am soft,
i am vulnerable
2023
co·a·les·cence
2023
how do i let go make?
2024-2025
i aim to find a space where my work has its own autonomy, where i can free myself from the rules, structures, and predetermined outcomes i build. With a strong love and understanding of colour, line and form, i created a collection that pays homage to grid, pattern, and colour.
the work is centered around meditative textile making that allows me to find freedom in repetition, departing from controlled perfection. i worked with unconventional materials and techniques, allowing them to guide my process and convey autonomy.
my collection that satisfies what perfection cannot.
research + inspiration
CREDITS
creative director/designer/maker: amanda nian
design assist: tay freeman
making assist: regine decossard, tay freeman, ian nicastro, antara manurkar
photographer: olivia harris
videographer/editor: kayla bernard
shoot assist: regine decossard, ian nicastro
sound production: tay freeman
2024-2025
i aim to find a space where my work has its own autonomy, where i can free myself from the rules, structures, and predetermined outcomes i build. With a strong love and understanding of colour, line and form, i created a collection that pays homage to grid, pattern, and colour.
the work is centered around meditative textile making that allows me to find freedom in repetition, departing from controlled perfection. i worked with unconventional materials and techniques, allowing them to guide my process and convey autonomy.
my collection that satisfies what perfection cannot.
research + inspiration
CREDITS
creative director/designer/maker: amanda nian
design assist: tay freeman
making assist: regine decossard, tay freeman, ian nicastro, antara manurkar
photographer: olivia harris
videographer/editor: kayla bernard
shoot assist: regine decossard, ian nicastro
sound production: tay freeman
creative director/designer/maker: amanda nian
design assist: tay freeman
making assist: regine decossard, tay freeman, ian nicastro, antara manurkar
photographer: olivia harris
videographer/editor: kayla bernard
shoot assist: regine decossard, ian nicastro
sound production: tay freeman
i am soft, i am vulnerable
2023
i wanted to reconsitiute what protection meant for myself, finding hardness and fortification in vulnuerability, letting the façade fall away, showing truth and bearing all.
i created three looks centered around undergarments, my material choices, textiles explorations, silhouettes and details all contribute to expressing strength in softness.
research + development
2023
i created three looks centered around undergarments, my material choices, textiles explorations, silhouettes and details all contribute to expressing strength in softness.
research + development
co·a·les·cence
2023
the joining or merging of elements to form one mass or whole.
textiles aren’t transient or purely aesthetic, there is spiritual, practical, sentimental, and craft value in textile. the culmination of these values is the art of quilting, a material technique that uses fabric (often leftover) to create a textile items/art pieces.
this series of quilts are made from personal and communal scrap fabric (friends, peers, and the wider community). this body of work explores colour and blends together my love for painting into my textile practice to make items of high value from unwanted material.
2023
textiles aren’t transient or purely aesthetic, there is spiritual, practical, sentimental, and craft value in textile. the culmination of these values is the art of quilting, a material technique that uses fabric (often leftover) to create a textile items/art pieces.
this series of quilts are made from personal and communal scrap fabric (friends, peers, and the wider community). this body of work explores colour and blends together my love for painting into my textile practice to make items of high value from unwanted material.