Garments · Textiles · Identity
Concept-led fashion design with a strong interest in silhouette, texture, and narrative.
Yvie Apps is a Fashion Design and Technology student whose work explores the relationship between garments, textiles, and identity through construction, surface detail, and visual storytelling.
Approach
The portfolio brings together bridal design, identity-led concepts, textile experimentation, and research-driven development. It balances hand processes with contemporary fashion thinking.
Current Focus
Garment construction, pattern cutting, digital fashion, portfolio development, fashion illustration, and fashion business.
Based In
Manchester / London
Selected Work
A portfolio shaped by material curiosity, structure, and personal interpretation.
Grow a Backbone
Bridal design challenging patriarchal traditions through spine-like smocking and sculptural form.
Objects
Art-textile exploration of objectification, books, nostalgia, and vintage surface treatment.
Identity
A layered response to self-perception, social media, and the symbolism of the eye.
Modernised Kimono
A reworked silhouette connecting tradition, contemporary styling, and print-led development.
Project 01
Grow a Backbone
A bridal project exploring and challenging patriarchal viewpoints of wedding attire. The development was inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli’s 1938 skeleton dress and expanded through smocking, spine-like detailing, silhouette studies, and final garment construction.
Project 02
Objects
Beginning with the objectification of women in media, this project shifted into a study of ordinary objects in fashion. Inspired by Sylvie Facon, it used lino printing, pin tucks, hand-dyeing, and embroidered wording to build a corset-led look with a worn, bookshelf-inspired finish.
Project 03
Earth, Water, Fire
A set of concept developments inspired by natural elements and the contrasting structures they suggest. From bark, moss, and lichen, to droplets, icicles, ocean surfaces, flames, and volcanic energy, each look investigates how material and shape can translate environmental ideas into fashion.
Project 04
Identity
This project considers how identity can be distorted by modern technologies and social media. Using visual collage, lino printing, smocking, crochet, and hand-dyeing, the final look explores the eye as both image and metaphor — a gateway into layered identity.
Project 05
Modernised Kimono
An EPQ project reinterpreting the kimono through contemporary styling and garment development. Research, toile work, and final construction combine to create a silhouette that respects original references while moving toward a more modern expression.
About
Curious about how garments communicate identity, structure, and feeling.
Yvie Apps is a BA Fashion Design and Technology student at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work reflects a strong interest in textiles, garment construction, concept development, and the visual language of dress.
She is especially drawn to projects that begin with a clear idea and evolve through making: sketching, draping, pattern cutting, testing materials, and refining silhouette until the final piece feels both considered and expressive.
Alongside fashion, she brings strengths in communication, teamwork, attention to detail, and bilingual fluency in English and Japanese. Her portfolio includes research-led development, surface experimentation, and finished outcomes that connect craft with contemporary fashion thinking.
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