Profile: Ying-Hsuan Tang – Real Leather Design Competitions

Ying-Hsuan Tang

Shih Chien University

My name is Ying-Hsuan Tang, and I am a designer who works through fashion and material-based practices. I focus on how the body is gradually permeated, transformed, and eroded by environmental, industrial, and social systems. In my work, I often use leather, textiles, and dyeing experiments to explore states of contamination, residue, and loss of control, allowing materials to develop irreversible traces and transformations through partially uncontrolled processes. I view clothing as an interface between the body and the external world, and I aim to rethink the relationship between humans, materials, and systems.

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Pollution Erosion

Category: Apparel

Competitions: Taiwan Region

This work uses leather as a medium to explore how materials are transformed through prolonged environmental and external forces. Approached as a material with memory, leather absorbs and reacts to oils, dyes, and surrounding conditions. Through processes of penetration, diffusion, and partial control, it undergoes irreversible changes in texture and color, shifting from stability to a state of loss of control. The project extends to the relationship between body and system. As external forces gradually permeate, both material and body are altered. Leather becomes an interface that carries traces, responds to pressure, and continuously evolves. It shifts from a controlled material into one that records process, reveals transformation, and exists in a constant state of becoming.