Hanjin Chen

"Traces of Time" is a ready-to-wear collection for women. The collection presents garments inspired by three related natural phenomena: the rings of a tree, rusting metal, and yellowed pages of a book. The silhouettes, fabric textures and colours are inspired by the phenomena. The collection was consciously developed using a variety of fabric modifications. All objects leave an indelible mark when they stay, and even if the phenomenon can be wiped off the surface, time has already made a record of it. Usually we are used to measure everything by time, in this collection I have recorded time by traces.