Lucid Dreaming

Ziggy Chen AW22

Illusaits AW22

As Ziggy Chen continues to explore what man's relationship is to the surrounding world, he is aware of the fact that the world is tightening around us with the invention and rapid evolution of technology. Illusaits is a collection of illusion and portraits, showing us a reality through the filter of a dreamlike state of consciousness.

Through various collections this theme has been explored and investigated and continues to be studied by Chen as each collection is presented almost like a progress report of his most recent findings. The designer finds the coexistence of reality and a dream state fascinating, the existence of fantasy in conjunction with the objective world, the rational and irrational, the non-existence of time. This collection reflects the designers consciousness, fluctuating graphics like waves through a lucid dream.

All materials have been designed and sourced by Chen with the collaboration of local artisans. As he had more time to sit with his thoughts and observations this season his thoughts turned to the prints of the textiles. With washes of natural colors and painterly prints, this artist designer expresses his personal reality, conscious and unconscious, beautifully.