Jisu’s graduate collection was strongly inspired by the city she grew up in South Korea due to its many contrasting contradictions. Her hometown was both nature friendly and scientifically developed. Jisu picked up on these two juxtapositions and learnt how they coexist in one city. Combining both science and art from her hometown, Jisu used this to develop a flexible way of thinking when it came to her work.
Her influences continued to grow through how she began to express her thoughts and emotions through her surroundings and experiences in daily life. She turned her negative experience with depression into something positive by using it to inspire her graduate collection. During a walk, Jisu noticed a blooming flower on asphalt and felt an invisible positive energy when she gazed upon it. She felt that the flower represented life and chose to use this symbol for her designs. The optimism and vitality she felt from the flower, contrasted with the desolate asphalt became a recurring theme in her pieces.
Jisu was also inspired by seeing the clothes people wore. Looking at her surroundings as if it was a moving 3-dimensional canvas, she created artwork as well as functional clothes through various materials and colours.
By applying her innervation, Jisu to implemented herself into her designs, allowing her to embody further divergences. Her collection is filled with further contrasts such creating a masculine silhouette and filling it with feminine prints.
