Summer 2025 - WINNER

Tiffany Yang

This collection is inspired by the realisation that in a long-distance relationship, we often say "I miss you" more than "I love you" — a phrase that reflects an unreachable longing and yearning, trapped behind a phone screen, reduced to cold yet honest text and images. Using jacquard knitting techniques, I wove images of clothing directly into the fabric, creating an illusion where the virtual and the real blur — like seeing someone through a screen: clearly there, yet untouchable. This "flat illusion" symbolises both the authenticity and limitations of digital emotion. The lace patchwork incorporated into the series represents the romance and tenderness that still exist within relationships — a longing for genuine connection, even when wrapped in rationality and technology. The overall design responds to how people today rely on mobile phones to maintain relationships, while also attempting to transform those compressed, delayed, and distorted emotions into wearable pieces with warmth. This is an experiment in expressing emotion through knitting — a question and a gaze directed at love in the digital age.