Crystal Zhang

Hometown: Weihai, Shandong Province, China
Collection name: Metamorphosis
Collection in three words: Avant-garde. Flamboyant. Lively.

Instagram: @crystalllyyy
Email: yzhang.2@go.ccad.edu

Metamorphosis by Crystal Zhang, a second-year Master of Fine Arts candidate, shares her story of growth and healing from depression. “The healing feeling made me want to share my story with people and invite them to look into my inner world and find some echo” (to their own experiences), she says. Inspired by postmodernism and deconstructionism, each garment in Metamorphosis conveys a unique quality through different textile manipulation techniques and mixed-media. Avant-garde, flamboyant, and lively, many of Zhang’s designs are more like wearable sculptures than what we traditionally consider clothing, blurring the boundaries between art and fashion.. Perhaps Metamorphosis’s most anticipated piece is a look that features a large, red lobster tail-like piece decorated from bottom to the top and representing the growth of hope. “Metamorphosis not only happens through the whole collection but on each garment,” Zhang says.