Clothing is a blank slate for human beings, and depending on how we wear, adjust, consume, and prioritize it, it will come across differently for each person, thus representing each person in their own unique ways. Shirt is a project focused on the relationship between people and clothing. This project comes from the very large part of my life that is clothing, and is a culmination of everything I have learned as well as some of the special pieces I have amassed over my nine years of trying to make money in and around the fashion industry. Since 2015, I have transitioned from reselling streetwear and hype clothing, to interning for other brand owners, and then attempting to create and run my own clothing brands. Eventually I began reselling second hand at a consumer level, and now operate wholesale and appointment based vintage shopping here in the Bay Area. Shirt is a representation of my ability to research, identify, and source clothing based on historic context or for personal style and inspiration, as well as illustrate the way clothing can be worn and styled for any viewer, regardless of their fashion knowledge and interest.

Throughout history, clothing has been created, designed, and utilized to show rank, social status, career, and personality among many other defining traits, lifestyles, and characteristics. Clothing is universal.   

            Shirt includes  five general topics/ themes applicable for the time, theme, and place of the senior thesis exhibition: 1. Berkeley in the 60’s / Haight Street Hippies 2. Women’s Rights + Human Rights 3. Peace and War 4. Living Through Clothing 5. Personal Synopsis. Berkeley in the 60’s / Haight St. Hippies focuses on the push for freedom of speech and civil rights movements around the Berkely campus in the 60’s as well as the hippie, peace, and psychedelic era that hit San Francisco, especially Haigh Street. Women’s Rights + Human Rights is focused mostly on women’s rights throughout the 70’s and 80’s. Peace and War contains contrasting curations of military memorabilia and clothing created for anti- war propaganda. Living Through Clothing comes from the idea that all humans end up putting their personal touch on clothing, whether it be intentional, functional, or accidental.The project will feature hand made, custom,and personal pieces as far back as the 1950’s. Personal Synopsis will be a section that is dedicated to my own family. It will include pieces that address immigration, issues in North Korea, my family’s early life in America, as well as my own life.