Wenying Qi

About

Wenying Qi is from Liaoning, China. She has a bachelor’s degree in software engineering from Yunnan University and a master’s degree in design (clothing modeling and design) from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. After getting her first master’s degree in fashion design, she continued to study fashion design at the Royal College of Art.

She is good at using her engineering background to carry out interdisciplinary clothing design, mainly combining technologies such as holographic projection, Arduino IoT technology and augmented reality technology with fashion design. She likes to use combined technologies to express and design clothing more freely.

The design inspiration of the clothing comes from a common saying often said by Chinese people, that is, “Life is like a play, and a play is like life.” With the help of the rule that different facial makeups correspond to different personalities in Peking Opera, Peking Opera is used as the main source of inspiration to design clothing corresponding to the personality. The project uses virtual clothing as the output form. With the help of the characteristics of virtual clothing, some personalities that people cannot express in daily life can be fully displayed in the virtual world.

This project aims to integrate virtual clothing into people’s daily lives as much as possible, rather than just staying in photos. Currently, most virtual clothing on the market is sent to users in the form of pictures or videos as the final product. However, this type of virtual clothing always has a certain sense of separation from real life. Therefore, the project chose an augmented reality program as the final presentation method for the finished product, so that users can interact with virtual clothing in real time through their mobile phones.

In this project, she tried the possibility of applying virtual clothing to real life. In the future, she will continue to explore and design clothing combined with virtual reality, and try to combine other technologies to reduce the use of fabrics, so as to carry out sustainable clothing design.