This project explores cultural speculation with a focus on inspiration drawn from Peking Opera. The project uses simple objects to create exaggerated silhouettes and is based on design strategies developed where relationships between 2D and 3D and performed through movement.

Presented as a series of circular layered objects, the project recreates the spherical silhouettes produced by the movement of Peking Opera performers. The series of objects are scaled to relate to and wrap around different parts of the body and applied as ‘accessories’ such as a hat, a sleeve or a bracelet. The colours red, blue, white and black are drawn from the performance of Peking Opera and the decorative technique of applique disassembles the motif of face masks worn by performers as a way to explode pattern and recombine it with overlapping forms that play on the effect of moire allowed by the properties of the tulle material used through the collection.