{"id":3556,"date":"2022-04-11T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T08:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2022-10-13T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:23:42","slug":"designer-of-the-year-2021-finalist-teo-ka-yong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/designer-of-the-year-2021-finalist-teo-ka-yong\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer of the Year 2021 Finalist: Teo Ka Yong"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Spot our School of Fashion and Design (SFD)<\/a> Alumna, Teo Ka Yong, making waves in the local fashion scene as one of the Designer of the Year 2021 finalists!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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MDIS SFD Alumna, Teo Ka Yong\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The inspiration behind her \u2018at the 25th<\/sup> hour.\u2019 collection was that Teo Ka Yong wanted to try out various new ways of designing her garment \u2014 making her collection full of her \u201cfirsts\u201d despite being her last collection.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Illustration on her final collection: at the 25<\/span>th<\/sup> hour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Exploration comes with a set of unfamiliar challenges for our young designer. Nevertheless, Teo Ka Yong pushed through her difficulties and learned a lot during the process to ensure what she envisioned in her design became a reality. For instance, her puffy down skirt key concept went through 7 prototype reiterations before she settled on her final pattern, which is considered a lot as she normally takes 2 or 3 reiterations. What made this more challenging was that the particular skirt, from the textile material and silhouette, was all so new to her. Despite these hurdles, she completed the skirt, along with other garments, just in time before the semester came to an end.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Photography credit to Ethan Lai\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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at the 25<\/span>th<\/sup> hour. visuals\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Aside from the difficulties in the competition, Teo Ka Yong also shares her challenges breaking out of the fashion industry as a young designer in Singapore, especially in this pandemic. She hopes that the local fashion scene will provide more opportunities for young designers like herself to obtain some kind of public exposure; apart from competitions and magazine issues featuring graduate students which is provided by SFD for our students as a stepping stone into the industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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Check out her full interview here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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Written by Indraputra Hasssan<\/p>\r\n

Edited by Betache Precious Mae<\/p>\r\n

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Spot our School of Fashion and Design (SFD) Alumna, Teo Ka Yong, making waves in the local fashion scene as one of the Designer of the Year 2021 finalists!\u00a0\u00a0   MDIS SFD Alumna, Teo Ka Yong\u00a0 The inspiration behind her \u2018at the 25th hour.\u2019 collection was that Teo Ka Yong wanted to try out various new ways of designing her garment \u2014 making her collection full of her \u201cfirsts\u201d despite being her last collection.\u00a0\u00a0   Illustration on her final collection: at the 25th hour.\u00a0 Exploration comes with a set of unfamiliar challenges for our young designer. Nevertheless, Teo Ka Yong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":3562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdis.edu.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}