
2nd Year Undergraduate Student
RUEI-LING HSU
& YUN-ZHEN LIN
Title
I'm Just Here to Watch You
Description
This collection explores the fragmented and evolving identity of an alien observer born from emotional conflict—a being wrapped in humor yet navigating the sharp edges of pain.
Inspired by the experience of mental illness, often labeled and misunderstood, the collection questions whether well-meaning concern from different perspectives can become additional pressure. Beyond the judgments of others lies a contradictory, fragmented self—an emergent creator of a new world.
Conceptualized as an extraterrestrial encountering human emotions, the collection embodies the clash of extreme feelings that birth internal contradictions. These alien figures roam amid misunderstood sensations, ultimately breaking free from societal frameworks to assert their intrinsic value without needing validation or understanding.
Vivid colors collide to express intense emotional extremes, while geometric shapes and padded textures reminiscent of down jackets convey a sense of protective enclosure and safety. The presentation employs music and choreography to dramatize contrasting stages of transformation, symbolizing the journey through mental illness as both grotesque and fragmented, yet undeniably authentic.
This is fashion as an emotional language—strange, divided, but unapologetically me.
Awards
✱ Honourable Mention Award
SCFD Avant-garde Debut Show













