#WeAreCreatives Student Spotlight: JD Dongyeon Cho

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JD Dongyeon Cho, BA (Hons) Fashion Design final year designs

We Are Creatives Student spotlight

JD Dongyeon Cho, BA (Hons) Fashion Design

My work

My concept is inspired by the amusement park I visited with my mother when I was a boy. When I was a child, I loved playing with dolls, so I was always with dolls wherever I went, whatever I did. I really liked to go the theme park. When I went there, big dolls danced with me and greeted me, so I felt it was a dreamy world. When I visited to the fantasy world, I danced and paraded with lovely dolls, fireworks exploded in the sky, and colourful attractions were moving. I wanted to express my fantastic concept in a special way, so I developed silhouettes, coordinated designs through patterns of clothes, and investigated colours and tones to match my concept through tutorials. I learned printing and laser cutting techniques to express the festive atmosphere of my fancy dolls parade and amusement park.

JD Dongyeon Cho, BA (Hons) Fashion Design final year designs

My time at NTU

I have improved and considered my designs through various projects at Nottingham Trent University. I learned a lot from tutors about the design and the details that I didn't think of. It has always been new and fun for me to grow the design development process through the sketchbook working so that I can accurately communicate and express my designs and mood, and to develop garments more structurally after discussions with tutors and technicians.

I was able to attempt and apply techniques related to various clothes that I could use to express my design. Especially after working on printing and laser-cutting techniques in my final major collection, I achieved a great sense of accomplishment in the process of gradually completing my design.

My future

After graduation, I want to work in the fashion industry. Based on what I learned during my university life, I want to grow infinitely based on the sense of achievement I get from working in the real industry and the skills I learn from the field.

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