Soft systems between body, material, and time
Freda Xia is a Fashion designer and Visual artist working between textiles, biomaterials, and spatial practice. Her work explores how softness behaves under pressure, where structures stretch, rupture, and reorganize over time.
Rooted in traditional Chinese painting and expanded through fashion and textile training at Parsons School of Design, her practice moves beyond image-making toward material systems. She works with hand-reeled silk, natural dyes, and protein-based biomaterials such as gelatin and silk protein, developing membrane-like structures that respond to gravity, tension, and time.
Rather than creating fixed garments, she builds soft systems that evolve with the body. These systems investigate how form emerges through material behavior, and how instability, failure, and repair can become active conditions within structure.
Her work positions fashion as an interface between body, material, and environment, proposing alternatives to conventional synthetic materials and exploring how biodegradable systems can enter fashion contexts.
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