From Fashion Week to PhD - Why I’m Embedding Technology into Garments

For over a decade, my work has lived in the world of fashion - silhouette, construction, structure, and storytelling. Showing at New York Fashion Week was a defining moment in my creative journey, but even then, I was asking a deeper question:

What is clothing really for?

Beyond aesthetics and identity, clothing holds us. It shapes how we move. It influences how we feel. It can empower, protect, soften, shield.

Now, as a PhD researcher, I’m exploring how garments might actively support emotional wellbeing.

My research investigates how everyday clothing could gently respond to physiological changes associated with stress and anxiety. Not in a loud or clinical way, but subtly - almost invisibly.

This is not about turning garments into gadgets. It is about rethinking clothing as a space for embodied awareness.

If stress shows up in the body, could clothing help us notice it sooner?

That is the question guiding this next chapter.