The 21-year-old RMIT fashion student Betty Liu explores the multiple functions of clothes with particular interests paid to technology, sociology, identity, and nature. As a fashion practitioner, she is interested in exploring issues surrounding gender, post-colonial discourse, and consumption.

Currently, she is in her last year of uni, working on her graduation series.

Her last project ‘After Print’ is all about bee’s and we asked her some questions about the project.

Can you tell me something about your After Print project?

This series is a trilogy of works that explore nature from the sight perspective of bees as an effort to raise awareness to colony collapse disorder (CCD), a phenomenon that has drastically impacted the bee population in North America and Europe.

What was your inspiration for this project?

The television series Black Mirror actually informed me about this phenomenon and a Japanese manga: Meitantei Conan gave me the idea to look into the after image illusion and combine these two together. 

Can you explain your creative design process?

I always start with asking myself what I want to portray with this work by writing down thoughts and linkages to different types of sewing techniques, garment archetypes or silhouettes.