Yuting Zhang

my name is Zhang Yuting, and I am studying Fashion at the Royal College of Art.
Image of our final prototype designs illustrating the product colors, scale, and textures as well as the packaging and booklet design.

About

As a fashion design student, my practice is dedicated to exploring the tensions between clothing, social structures, cultural narratives, and gender identities. Through transformations in garment design, I reconsider the ways bodies are represented—positioning clothing not merely as a shell for concealment or adornment, but as a powerful response to individual identity, social expectations, and traditional ideologies.

In the project Unseen and Undefined: Redefining Gender and Visibility, my team and I investigated the “invisibility” of women and non-binary individuals within history, fashion, and performance. We constructed a multi-layered narrative—spanning from the 1950s to a speculative future—through a multidisciplinary approach involving garments, dance, masks, film, and sound. I led the design of costumes and styling, focusing on how garments transform with movement to reflect the shifts and struggles in gender expression.