Zijing Pei

Zijing Pei

Collection

Bio

Zijing Pei is a fashion designer whose BFA thesis collection draws from her domestic environment and upbringing, examining gendered stereotypes embedded in cultural and historical contexts.

Tilt begins with axial symmetry—often associated with male authority—and seeks to destabilize it. Through research into domestic space, she translates furniture forms and structures into garments, exploring new possibilities in silhouette and construction.

With experience in New York and Shanghai, she has contributed to design development, material research, and brand communication. Her practice focuses on the relationship between structure, pattern, and the body in space.

Porfolio: Zijing_websiteInstagram : @zijingpei

Tilt

This collection examines how structural order within domestic space shapes bodily experience, translating furniture systems and the authority of the “primary seat” into garments. Drawing from the axial construction of menswear, symmetry and control are shifted and reconfigured through the female body. Bent wood and fringe disrupt material rigidity, introducing fluidity, while suiting fabrics and jersey create tension between firmness and softness.
Image: One shirt dress offsets the traditional menswear center line, destabilizing fixed structures and redefining the relationship between body, space, and power.
Image: linesheet (look01-look 06)

Part 1

Symmetry? Authority?
Image: look 01
Image: Look 01
Image: Draping and fitting of look 01
Image: Look 01 is built on a tailored suit, with a high-back bentwood structure shaping the silhouette between garment and furniture. The shirt collar becomes a belt, while a fringe skirt moves softly—creating tension between rigidity and fluidity, where authority begins to shift.
Image: Look 02
Image: Look 02
Image: Draping and fitting of Look 02

Look 2 places a circular high-back chair form into the shirt’s yoke, creating a structured extension from the back. The cut-out jersey skirt follows curved lines inspired by the chair, revealing and concealing with movement. The sleeves become armrest-like extensions, blurring the line between garment and furniture.

Part 2

What if the shift was never an interruption,but part of the structure itself—then symmetry would not dominate,it would already bend,already soften.
Image: Look 03
Image: Look 03_ A sleeve, re-bound.A yoke, off-axis.A collar, undone. Symmetry—where? Curves—where?
Image: Materiality for look 03
Image: Bending Wood Technique
Image: Draping and Fitting of look 03
Image: Look 04
Image: Look 04
Image: Fringe flows along the body—where does symmetry rest?
Image: Draping and Fitting of Look 04

PART 3

Symmetrical? Authority"Tilt—by the body
Image: Look 05
Image: Look 05
Image: Look 06
Image: Look 06
Image: look 06
Image: Draping and fitting of Look 06

OTHERS

The collection draws from domestic “primary seats,” merging their silhouettes with the authority of menswear. It reflects on male dominance in cultural and historical contexts.Furniture forms are draped into garments, translating structure and material into the body.
Something others in the process book
Video: Process Book