Lehan Weng

I am a second-year costume design student with a research-led approach to my practice. I place strong emphasis on investigation and evidence, often grounding my work in historical, cultural, or contextual references before developing a visual outcome. I am particularly interested in history and how garments carry traces of time, identity, and social change. Rather than directly reproducing historical styles, I am more interested in reinterpreting them, exploring how elements from the past can be translated into new contexts. Alongside this, I am drawn to both fantasy and realism as narrative frameworks. I enjoy constructing stories that feel emotionally grounded, even when they are set in imagined worlds. My design process often moves between research and storytelling, allowing me to create work that is both conceptually informed and visually expressive. I also aim to incorporate my own aesthetic sensibility into each project, balancing structure and atmosphere. For me, design is a way of negotiating between past and present, reality and fiction, and personal identity within a broader cultural context.