JUXTAPOSITION-My graduate thesis designed in the Parsons MFA program (details still being uploaded)

Nan Yu is a fashion designer specializing in prints and knits. Growing up in a steel city surrounded by forests in China, Nan developed a deep appreciation for both industrial aesthetics and the natural world. Her artistic philosophy centers on the concept of juxtaposition. She has always believed that there is a blurring of the boundaries of different fields, and that juxtapositions will collide to create new aesthetics of inspiration.

Nan 's current series is an aesthetic dialog about cars and nature, exploring the juxtaposition between industrial and nature aesthetic and the juxtaposition between hard and soft. The collection includes disassembling and reassembling and replicating a 1:1 model of a car, a trip to the forest to capture the colors of speed at high speeds, precious photographs of volcano hiking, silhouettes of racing garments, aesthetic patterns of automotive upholstery, the technique of laser-cutting leather, and the mottling of lacquered leather and silver fabrics with heat transfer printing. Each piece in the collection is a visual exploration of the elements and experiences that she loves, embodying the philosophy of Nan‘s "the aesthetics of juxtaposition".