Welcome to my page! My name is Annalyse Fu. I am currently a junior fashion design student at Parsons School of Design, New York, with minors in Creative Entrepreneurship and Japanese. Born in Beijing, China, I moved to Toronto, Canada at 10 years-old. With influences from both eastern and western cultures, I am fluent in Mandarin, English, and converstational Japanese.

During my free time, I am constantly trying to find a new challenging logic or mystery puzzles. I also love to play volleyball, read about philosophy, and improve my skill in MOBA and reaction games!

I invite the viewer to feel my designs as a symbol of the infinite world of imagination unbound to our rationality, a borderless nature beyond the description of words, akin to an opening in emptiness, and an invitation into my mind.

I am interested in exploring notions of illusion versus reality, changing of perception, and distortion of the body, the mind, as well as the world around us. By viewing the world in a dystopic, surreal perspective, I tend to perceive my surroundings with a sense of abstraction and fantasy. Curiosity and motive originates largely from philosophical studies of life, death, the subconscious and intuition, and beyond. With influences of abstraction and Buddhist teachings of existence - impermanence, suffering, and emptiness or absence of self-nature - my work takes the interest in portraying such ideas as an acceptance towards transience and imperfections. I find myself compelled to express my questioning of reality, existence, and permanency through illustrations, sculptural forms, and materiality. By staying away from traditional methods of fashion illustration, I explore the raw, unedited thoughts within the mind and use such immediate comprehension to guide the lines, shapes, and contours of my designs. I allow myself to forget the natural contours of the human form. Rather, I am captivated to instinctively distort human-ly silhouettes into entities of imagination, and begin to build an extension of what may be our mind, body, and soul. By entering into a dream-like, meditative state, I use the spontaneity of my subconscious to guide not only my illustrations, but also the physical explorations of draping and materiality. These illustrations may be interpreted differently by viewers, and I invite the viewers to experience, not a complete design, but an empathy towards my train of thought.